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Author Julian Evans has worked with woodlands for twenty-five years and was the UK Forestry Commission’s Chief Research Officer for much of this time. In 1985 he decided to buy his own small wood in North Hampshire, fulfilling every forester’s dream. Caring for the wood and its natural inhabitants using both ancient and modern skills, Evans experiences the evolvin... [click here for more] |
Chelsea Green Publishing |
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According to the Iditarod Trail Committee, which organizes the annual sled dog race to Nome, "The Iditarod wouldn't be possible without the volunteer pilots in the Iditarod Air Force who donate their time, their planes, and their expertise every year to move everything from dog food to dogs to dog doctors along the trail in conditions that are sometimes simply beyond belief. Ted Mattson&#... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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Women were outnumbered 25 to 1 in the Klondike Gold Rush. Thousands more followed their men's dreams to Alaska in the century that followed. This created the myth that Alaska was a "man's country." Not surprisingly, this idea came from men. In ALASKA WOMEN WRITE, women dispel the myth. They learn to fly, work on the pipeline, teach in the Bush, raft wild rivers, discover a love f... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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You know those outlandish tales you've heard about early bush pilots of the Far North? Turns out some of them are true. ALASKA'S SKY FOLLIES reveals the humorous truth about an earlier era of aviation. This book is full of stories of the daring and courage of Alaska's special breed of seat-of-the-pants aviators. They include the near-misses, when all you could do was shake off the fear... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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From Publishers Weekly
With the discovery that her "piddlin' little county on the Gulf Coast" led the nation in toxic emissions, shrimper Wilson, a mother of five, found herself embarking on a voyage of discovery and activism that would strain her marriage and stretch her horizons. A David up against big-time chemical Goliaths, Wilson is a gifted storyteller, rendering dialogue ... [click here for more] |
Chelsea Green Publishing |
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As Long As It Takes is about life, achievement, and sailing. It is about growing up and finding goals; about staying the course and minding the heading, and about arriving at places one had only dreamed about. It is also is about the making of Captain William "Bill" Pinkney, about his friends and family, and about his boats, especially Comittment. She took him around th... [click here for more] |
Bunker Hill Publishing |
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One of America’s best storytellers tells his own story. Tracing his progression from a child in the Adirondacks to self-confessed "nature nut" to jock to acclaimed writer—Native American author Joe Bruchac blends narrative with history to describe his belief in the vital importance of stories for himself and the world.At the End of Ridge Road reveals the linkage betw... [click here for more] |
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Back Under Sail describes a five-day sailboat race through breathtaking Alaskan wilderness, a journey that helped the author finally recover from a near-fatal rape. Capturing the immediacy of the race, Scherer’s account takes in the violence and beauty of both the human and natural worlds. Her book is an adventure to read, a moving record of life’s unpredictability and the pos... [click here for more] |
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The macho society that held John Wayne as a role model has created an emotional wasteland where eighty percent of men are unable to accurately express their feelings, and where that same percentage feel estranged from their fathers. The stifled male, disconnected and out of touch, fills the void with apathy or anger and the toll is staggering: short unhealthy lives, ruined relationships and dam... [click here for more] |
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In her spellbinding second book, the award-winning, bestselling author Velma Wallis interweaves two classic Athabaskan legends set in ancient central Alaska. This is the story of two rebels who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure. Readers will be captivated by this profound myth about two young people who wander far from their culture's d... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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For David Brendan Hopes, day hikes, the occasional overnight in the mountains, or a ramble through a city park provide the perfect opportunity for both refuge and speculation. Ranging from backyards to highway ditches to the shoulder of Mount Pisgah, Hopes challenges the idea that wild experience can only be found in wilderness areas.... [click here for more] |
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Cadwalader, a Marine captain severely wounded in Viet Nam, recuperates but is unable to return to combat. Strongly influenced by his experience in the Marines, he recruits a small band of unlikely teachers”, well-educated social drop-outs, and launches an experiment in the rehabilitation of hard-core juvenile delinquents. The site he selects is Penikese, a remote island off the Massachusetts... [click here for more] |
Chelsea Green Publishing |
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In this memoir, a sequel to the immensely popular autobiography, TALES OF ALASKA'S BUSH RAT GOVERNOR, former governor Jay Hammond spins more delightful yarns about the fascinating people and humorous situations he has encountered from one end of Alaska to the other, from wild tales about life in the Bush to stories about the hot air-filled legislative halls in Juneau. Hammond is one of Alaska&... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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"Chiva" is street slang for heroin - and heroin is a hot topic. Its use as a narcotic is on a precipitous rise. Worldwide heroin production has doubled in the last decade, and the United Nations estimates more than fifteen million users are addicted - up to three million in the United States. It's big business, too, with yearly global sales of 0 billion - up to bill... [click here for more] |
New Society |
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COLD CRIME is a collection of stories about some of Alaska's high-profile criminal investigations of the past half-century. Step by step, journalist Tom Brennan walks readers through thirteen notorious cases, drawing details from the confidential files of Alaska police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion and greed, and an amazing amount of criminal stupidity.... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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This is an inspirational and deeply moving story of a proud Alaska Indian family struggling to survive in two worlds. Sam and Louise Harper and their ten children make a soul-grinding transition into a modern white-dominated society where they face bigotry, poverty, and illness. Yet, Louise remains in touch with centuries-old traditions of healing, honoring nature's spirits, and a belief that ... [click here for more] |
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After graduating from the Yale School of Architecture, Don Metz decided to take up a small country parctice in lieu of seeking success with a popular commercial firm. His choice led to personal and philosophical fulfillment, as well as recogition as a maverick architect who could build honest, reliable, and sustainable homes. It only followed that he would go on to write several books on architect... [click here for more] |
Bunker Hill Publishing |
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Cousin John became a star in the firmament of nature surrounding the bucolic boyhood of Walter Paine. Growing up among the fragrant fields and massive maples, oaks, hickories, elms, and beech, with so many creatures, both real and imaginary, the author called it his Magic Kingdom. He was as much of a handful for his parents as his pet pig proved to be for everyone in the neighborhood and beyond. T... [click here for more] |
Bunker Hill Publishing |
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After winning Statehood in 1959, Alaska attracted thousands of collegiate stars who played for colorful teams such as the Fairbanks Goldpanners, Alaska Glacier Pilots, Peninsula Oilers, North Pole Nicks, and Anchorage Bucs. Hundreds went on to major leagues, including Hall of Famer Tom Seaver, home-run king Mark McGwire, and fireball pitcher Randy Johnson. And nowhere else is there an event like t... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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Rick Bass's dog, Colter, is the brown dog of theYaak. Described by Bass as a creature almost mythic, the dog charges through the mountain valleys following the scent of game. In this book, Bass gives a history of his years with Colter—including vignettes about interactions with well-known writers Jim Harrison and Barry Lopez—as a way of understanding what is intuitive in himself an... [click here for more] |
Milkweed Editions |
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Former investigative journalist Frank Parchman becomes embedded in the lives of eight people whose fates are profoundly altered and ultimately become intertwined in the aftermath of the volcanic fury in southwest Washington state. The story begins on March 20, 1980. After 123 years of geologic tranquility, a swarm of earthquakes signals that Americas youngest and most dangerous volcano is coming ... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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by Joy A. Palmer (ed.) ~
A team of over twenty expert contributors summarise and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day.... [click here for more] |
Routledge |
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George Carmack made an announcement in August 1896 that started a gold stampede, one that led more than a half million men to the Klondike--he spoke of his big strike on Bonanza Creek. Here is the inside story leading up to Carmack's big discovery and his lifelong quest for gold, that remained with him long after he left Alaska and the Yukon.... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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"I invite you to join me at the beginning of my growing season and join in the discoveries that unfolded.Your circumstances need not be the same as mine for my learnings to speak to you.We all suffer losses and disappointments.We all have times of conflict in our relationships.We all face change, both wanted and unwanted.We all have a place in our lives, a metaphoric garden, that in ... [click here for more] |
Council Oak Books |
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They are watching us, these ghosts of the North. They cook breakfast, play cards, mine gold, turn on radios, and play the piano. HAUNTED ALASKA is a collection of ghost stories that will raise the hair on the back of your neck. These astonishing stories tell of miners terrorized by spirits wandering their claims, of roadhouse owners visited daily by ghosts, and of reindeer herders who run in fear ... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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In 1959, writer and filmmaker Annick Smith came to Montana with her husband and their boys, looking for land and refuge. Her book is a loving description of the West today and an eloquent plea for its preservation.... [click here for more] |
Milkweed Editions |
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Blinding blizzards. Freezing wind. Paralyzing cold temperatures. The 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is a race across the nation's most forbidding, demanding, and dangerous territory. Competitors must be resourceful, rugged, and resilient. Often they must make life and death choices. These are the stories -- in their own words -- of men and women who challenge the elements. Many fans b... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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In 1965, Kay Woodruff Field, 38, a newly divorced former debutante once described as the "Grace Kelly of Chicago," loaded her three children into a Buick station wagon and headed north to start a fresh life in Alaska. Little did she know that she would became the most influential woman in Alaska. Fanning took a job at the Anchorage Daily News, a struggling morning newspaper that she and ... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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Joe Crosson became a national hero between the world wars flying mercy missions in the North, including a dangerous search in a dark Siberian winter for a lost pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, and a bitterly cold winter flight in an open cockpit carrying serum through unchartered mountains to Barrow, Alaska. He was the first pilot to land on a glacier. Thriving on adversity and overcoming tragedy, Crosson... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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Picking up where the best-selling IDITAROD CLASSICS left off, MORE IDITAROD CLASSICS introduces readers to more of the men and women who brave the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome. And do they ever have stories to tell! In their own words, champions and lesser knowns share their very best stories--how they came to love the race, train their dogs and themselves, and ba... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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MURDER AT FORTY BELOW is a gritty yet facinating account of amny of Alaska's most notorious and unusual murder cases. Drawn from police files, eyewitness accounts, and news reports, these stories introduce extreme criminals in a an extreme land. Meet church-going big-game hunter Robert Hanson, who stalked topless dancers for more than a decade, and Robert Stroud, a construction worker who kill... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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Born in India to medical missionaries, Carolyn Servid grew up along the Arabian Sea yet knew that this homeland was not her own. Years later, back in America, a trip to Alaska reawakened“a sensibility I did not fully understand" —the sense of connection between the human heart and the land. This shoreline would become her home. Describing the landscape around Sitka, Alaska, and he... [click here for more] |
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Negative 120 degree weather. Canned food that dates back at least a decade. Wind storms powerful enough to lift a human off the ground. Extremely unfashionable clothing. Welcome to Antarctica, the farthest away place in the world. When Gretchen Legler was a girl, she dreamed about traveling to two places: the moon and Antarctica. She hasn’t gotten to the moon yet, but On the Ice<>... [click here for more] |
Milkweed Editions |
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Dick Mackey, one of Alaska's greatest storytellers and one of its toughest men, approaches life in the North as one continuous adventure. He's lived ten lifetimes worth of adventure and Lew Freedman tells all. As a founder of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Mackey is best known for the most dramatic finish ever in the history of the race--his one-second victory over Rick Swenson after an... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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Many influential visitors have written about Alaska, among them John Muir, John McPhee, and James Michener. In OUR ALASKA, award-winning writer and editor Mike Doogan forges an eclectic collection of stories both refreshingly simple and thoughtfully profound from a variety of Alaskan writers. These are real stories: among them sharing tales of boyhood trips to Lake Minchumina; growing up aboard a ... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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Running wild rivers such as the crocodile-infested Tekaze in Ethiopia, Richard Bangs lived for the adrenalin, for the rush of reveling in the misery of hardship and sidestepping death around every bend. Bangs classic, The Lost River, which recounts first descents in Ethiopia and demands a single-session chair-gripping read epitomizes the rough-and-ready formative years of Bangs as the explo... [click here for more] |
Menasha Ridge Press |
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Knopf |
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In 1926, beautiful Aileen Gallaher left California to join trapper "Slim" Williams in Alaska's Copper River Valley. Theirs was a perilous existence spent in isolated cabins, bucking heavy snow, uncertain river ice, and fierce cold. Yet, Aileen fell in love with Slim and with the country, missing only female companionship. Enter Samme, her tenacious fifteen-year-old sister. Their live... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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by Terri Irwin, Gil Reavill ~
"When Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation that changed her life. Leaving behind her wildlife rescue work in Oregon, Terri traveled to Australia, and there, at a small wildlife park, she met and fell in love with a tall, blond force of nature named Steve Irwin. They were married in less than a year, and Terri eagerly joined in Steve'... [click here for more] |
Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
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by Lyle Scruggs ~
The ultimate goal of environmental policy is reducing pollution. Attention to environmental problems in the social sciences has brought some bold generalizations about causes of good results, but almost no systematic cross-national studies that flesh out major theoretical arguments and test those claims with data. This study makes a seminal contribution to that effort ... [click here for more] |
Cambridge University Press |
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Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her year in the barn as well as an extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in “climbing out of t... [click here for more] |
Milkweed Editions |
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Meet the Bioneers—visionary “biological pioneers” who use nature to heal nature. The Bioneers: Declarations of Interdependence, presents the fascinating and inspiring stories of 14 people at the cutting edge of solutions-based approaches to environmental restoration, whose work includes technological innovation, economic strategies, social justice, and a spi... [click here for more] |
Chelsea Green Publishing |
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"Nearing was a rugged individualist and lifelong socialist who profoundly influenced hundreds of thousands of people through his ideas and books . . . If there is a human race still here in a hundred years we'll have to learn two almost contradictory lessons: we'll have to make cities more livable places, and we'll have to show that independent-minded people can live o... [click here for more] |
Chelsea Green Publishing |
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Ann Daum's memoir rolls like the prairie hills, carries twists and turns like the path of the White River, and can pack a punch like Dakota weather. In sixteen pieces, Daum captures the beauty, despair, rewards, and loneliness of ranching in the contemporary West. ... [click here for more] |
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On a cold rainy spring day in Maine, Nan Lincoln awakens to life as usual on rural Mount Desert Island: a home to care for, a garden to tend, a family to love. But by day's end, her world will be turned upside down. A baby harbor seal has been abandoned on the rocks. The tide is coming in, and the seal's mother is nowhere to be seen. The Lincolns must make a decision: step in and save the ... [click here for more] |
Bunker Hill Publishing |
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The Wet Collection is a stunning, intricate collection of forty lyric essays juxtaposing natural history, ancient texts, folk heroes, and found objects. Using such models as Joseph Cornell’s box constructions, crazy quilts, and specimen displays, Joni Tevis places fragments in relationship to each other in order to puzzle out lost histories, particularly those of women. Th... [click here for more] |
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Looking west from the extraordinary setting of Brimnes—an Icelandic fishing village near the Arctic Circle—Bill Holm considers America from the perspective afforded by his house, that “series of magical windows with a few simple boards behind to hold them up.” He contrasts the isolation, loneliness, and fear of American society against the warmth and genuine community of... [click here for more] |
Milkweed Editions |
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John Foley didn't come to Alaska to teach. First, he was a newspaper reporter, but little in journalism prepares him to be a schoolteacher in rural Alaska, where he learns as much as he teaches and finds out what it means to be in the racial minority. First, Foley teaches in the remote Yup'ik Eskimo village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. There, he and his unhappy wife... [click here for more] |
Epicenter Press |
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From Publishers Weekly
Writing teacher Jensen doesn't believe in the traditional grading system, which he calls "a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do," so he opts instead to give his students at Eastern Washington University check marks: one check mark for turning in a piece of writing, four for editing that writing into perfection. For th... [click here for more] |
Chelsea Green Publishing |
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