'Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antar...

On October 23, 1918, a storm rose and the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Sophia ran aground on...

As a young man, naturalist, William Berry felt the call of both art and biology. This book is a u...

Barrett Willoughby wrote about a life in America's last frontier at least as adventuresome as tha...

'Fifty Years Below Zero' is an engrossing account by Charles Brower, the 'King of the Arctic,' of...

Poet, nonfiction writer, and lifelong musician Carolyn Kremers moved to Alaska to teach in the re...

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote c...

John Straley crafts here a collection of poems that pay homage to his home of the Pacific Northwe...

Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research

The Seal Islands of Alaska

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Mosco...

The History of the Central Brooks Range uses rare primary sources in order to provide a chronolog...

Claus-M. Naske has written the first biography of the man who helped to make Alaska the forty-nin...

While studying medicine at Hahnemann University in Pennsylvania, Joseph Herman Romig met Ella Mae...

'John Schoen's Tongass Odyssey is both a memoir and a scientific manuscript. As a memoir it offer...

'Poetry about Alaska, growing old, and more'

Chuck & Gladys Dart: Manley Hot Springs

The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encount...

'Saints and sinners, whores and housewives, swindlers and laborers alike attempted a hasty adjust...

In June 1942 the Japanese army invaded Attu, a remote island at the end of the Aleutian Chain. So...

Guided by photographer Jeff Jones's sure and well-developed vision, 'Arctic Sanctuary' leads the ...

'Dedicated to the Officers and Sailors of the Alaska Marine Highway System, Past and Present.'

There are some twenty-five words for 'snow' in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a differen...

Illustrated with photographs and written in the form of a series of haikus, this story reveals a ...

Ellangellemni: When I Became Aware

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were ...

When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other clim...

'In this book, you'll learn how to play centuries-old games with intriguing names, like the Eskim...

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to t...

The crookedest street in Fairbanks, an Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named for town fou...

'To the Chukchi Peninsula and to the Tlingit Indians 1881 1882, ' originally published in German ...

The only compendium of charts drawn by Lovstov, 18th-century Russian navigator and cartographer.

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of ge...

From the moment Ruth Sanders rips the glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she believes her...

What does an Alaskan look like? When asked to visualize someone from Alaska, the image most peopl...

I Follow in the Dust She Raises is a collection of deeply personal poems born from a life sharply...

'Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in Glass, Light & Electricity wander through landscapes ...

'Waterman's profound respect for the northern lands burns on every page, and his photos and essay...

Alaska's wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in De...

What's for dinner tonight? Is it something shaken from a bag or peeled from a plastic tray? Or is...

Unique among the documents on Alaska exploration, this volume contains two accounts of the same t...

Round the World Voyage of Hieromonk Gideon 1803-1809

'Life and Times of a Big River' weaves together the fascinating cultural and natural history of i...

Lucy helps her grandfather, and her entire community, recall the traditional dance festivals that...

A cold climate is no excuse for a dull, colorless garden. The key is knowing the right plants tha...

Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters--prospect...

In this book, originally published in 1972 by the Smithsonian Institution Press, the author prese...

Accounts concerning Native peoples of Russian America and California