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Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, nature writer Bill Sherwonit has called Alaska home since 1982. he worked a dozen years at newspapers, including a decade at the Anchorage Times. Sherwonit has contributed essays and articles to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines, journals, and anthologies; his essay “in the Company of Bears” (now a chapter in Living with Wildness) was selected for the Best American Science and nature writing 2007. Sherwonit is also the author of ten previous books about Alaska. in his spare time, he teaches nature and adventure/travel writing. Sherwonit lives in Anchorage’s turnagain area. his website is www.billsherwonit.alaskawriters.com.

Nature • Essays • Literature6 x 9, 232 pagesPaperback $21.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-014-9

Bill Sherwonit has added a fine new volume to the literature of place, a literature that may be the most vital and venture-some of any kind being written in America today. Tracing “the intelligence of nature” from the streets of Anchorage to the mountains of Alaska’s Brooks Range, he marvels over chickadees and grizzlies, wood frogs and sandhill cranes, moose and mice and countless other creatures, along with snow and stars and shimmering northern lights. In prose as clear as an unsullied stream, he tells about his search for the wildness in the depths of mind that answers to the wildness in the world.

—Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe

Like one of his winter days in Anchorage, Sherwonit’s book is bright and calm. Its gifts are a wild landscape of delight and a lesson in attentiveness.

—Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox

Bill Sherwonit writes, “I never imagined myself becoming a resident of America’s ‘last frontier.’” But in 1974, at age twenty-four, he arrived in Alaska, wide open to the experi-ence. This series of essays explores the author’s relationship with the wild, both internal and external. His encounters follow along a continuum of “wildness.”

“Wilderness is a place,” he says. “Wildness, on the other hand, is a quality, a state of being.” The author finds wildness in the comings and goings of songbirds at the feeder, a hali-but on a line, and deep within his own internal landscape. This book reveals Sherwonit’s experience as an authentic effort to understand and engage with his surroundings. In the process it shows us the way to access the wildness in our own lives.

Living With Wildness

Bill Sherwonit

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Environmental Studies • Literature6 x 9, 336 pagesPaperback $26.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-022-4

MArYBeth holleMAn is author of The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost. her award-winning essays, poetry, and articles have appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies. She is also author of Alaska’s Prince William Sound: A Traveler’s Guide and The State of the Sound, and teaches creative writing and women’s studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She lives in the foothills of the Chugach Mountains with her husband and son.

Anne CorAY, author of Bone Strings, lives at her birthplace on remote Qizhjeh Vena (lake Clark) in southwest Alaska. her poems have appeared in many publications and she has been a finalist with Carnegie Mellon, water Press & Media, and Bright hill Press, as well as for the Frances locke Memorial Award and the rita Dove Poetry Award.

Crosscurrents North is a beautiful, heart-breaking, and desperately important book. Alaska, the last frontier, may be humanity’s last chance to figure out how to live in a place without wrecking it. Whether Alaskans succeed or fail means the world to each of us, no matter where we live. What the book says—in the measured tones of Native elders, in the wind-scoured words of Alaska’s fine writers, in the blunt speech of trappers and fishers—is this: “There are people who love this bountiful, bruised land. Help us defend it.”

—Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox

This is a book of being with the land. . . . Most importantly, it is a book of living organisms, all of whom appear to know more than humans.

—Linda Hogan, author of People of the Whale

In this collection of sixty-one essays and poems, Alaskan authors celebrate the wildness and wonder of the land and raise questions about our relationship with the natu-ral world. The pieces express admiration and awe of the landscape and its wild inhabitants. They bear witness to the effects of climate change and react to the environmental side effects of development. They ponder the irony of the authors’ own impact, caused by the fact that they live here.

Among the contributors to this anthology are John Haines, Nick Jans, Marjorie Kowalski Cole, Sherry Simpson, Bill Sherwonit, and a foreword by Jay Hammond, former gover-nor of Alaska. All are passionate about their world.

Crosscurrents North

Edited by Marybeth Holleman and Anne Coray




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Peter UlF Møller is professor of Slavic studies at the University of Aarthus, Denmark. he has published extensively on russian literature, culture, and history.

nAtAShA okhotinA is a research fellow in russian history at the University of Copenhagan. She has published works in the areas of Medieval and early Modern russian history.

AnnA hAlAger lives in Copenhagen. her desire to translate this book was triggered by a visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1998 and an international workshop two months later entitled “Under Vitus Bering’s Command” in Copenhagen hosted by the two authors of this book.

Biography • Travel and Exploration6 x 9, 187 pages, b&w photos and illlustrations, maps, bibliography, indexHardcover $29.95 / isbn 978-1-889963-94-5

Until Death Do Us Part

Peter Ulf Møller and Natasha Okhotina Lind Translated by Anna Halager

Møller and Lind explore the family life of explorer Vitus Bering through his personal letters and those of his wife, Anna Christina. Born in Denmark in 1681, Bering led two historic expeditions to the Russian Far East and Alaska under the patronage of Tsar Peter the Great. His wife Anna accompanied him to Okhotsk and over a period of two months in 1739–1740, she and her husband wrote six-teen letters. These letters offer intimate glimpses of family relationships and the concerns of daily life, as well as insight into eighteenth-century mores.

Each letter is translated with the originals reproduced on the facing page. Also included are several lists of items brought by Anna Christina back to Moscow in 1742, after the death of her husband. These inventories tell us what items were considered valuable, as well as the sort of trade goods acces-sible to early Russian settlers in the Russian Far East.

This book is number 14 in the University of Alaska Press’s Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series.




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MArgAret MUrie had a lifelong interest in the peoples of the north. Murie grew up in interior Alaska and became the first female graduate of the University of Alaska. She was named Distinguished Alumnus in 1967, and in 1976 the University of Alaska further honored her by conferring the honorary degree of Doctor of humane letters.

September 2008Native American Studies • Literature6 x 9, 238 pages, line drawings by olaus muriePaperback $21.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-035-4

Island BetweenMargaret Murie

Margaret Murie has taken on thirty-three characters, the history of a remarkable people, birds, waves, winds and bliz-zards, and has turned out a beautiful book infused with her own love of wild Alaska.

—Western American Literature

One day, a giant who had one foot in Siberia and one in Alaska threw a handful of rock and dirt into the water, and it remained there as an island between two great conti-nents. In this first-ever paperback edition of Island Between, Margaret Murie weaves a tale of Eskimo life on Sevuokuk, known today as St. Lawrence Island. Through the life of Toozak, a young Inuit embarking on his first year as a hunter, the narrative traces the experience of the people of Sevuokuk through the yearly cycle that defined their lives. The story is a lively tale of love, jealousy, struggles to overcome the difficulties of daily life, a retelling of ancient, teaching stories and of first contact with strange, white-skinned people. At first they are met with fear, then curiosity and friendliness, until the people of Sevuokuk realize that subtle changes have put their future on a very different path.

Best known for her conservation efforts, Margaret Murie was also a careful researcher and an exquisite storyteller. Murie writes in her preface “so far as we know, from archaeology, recorded history, recent customs, and the personal testimony of the Island’s people, collected in Dr. Geist’s notebooks (Otto Geist, the University of Alaska’s first president), every fact, every incident, is true and actually happened at some time in the Island’s history. I have merely woven all into a narrative.”

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MorgAn SherwooD grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, and left the state in the late 1940s with his family. he earned his bachelors degree from San Diego State University in 1953 and then spent three years serving his country in korea and germany. he earned his masters and his doctorate from UC Berkeley in history. Although “sourdough” is seldom used for an Alaskan in the two-fold sense of prospector and old-timer, in Sherwood’s case it is an apt metaphor. he was a prospector in the manifold stories of man and nature in his home territory while he was also an old-timer as a talented and shrewd chronicler.

September 2008History • Environment7 x 10, 208 pages, b&w photosPaperback $ 24.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-034-7

Big Game in Alaska

Morgan Sherwood

Written with such force and style, and exhaustively re-searched in primary documents of the period, Big Game in Alaska is certain to become a classic work in American environmental history.

—Fred Runte, Technology and Culture

Henceforth no one can claim to have a grasp of the issues in the development of Alaskan game management without a knowledge of this book. Indeed, it should be required reading for anyone in the field of conservation and ecology.

—John E. Caswell, Pacific Historian

The people and big game animals of Alaska lived together successfully until the dawn of the twentieth century. But growth triggered by the military buildup after WWII marked the beginning of the end of Alaska’s frontier inno-cence and endangered the most fragile part of the wilder-ness—the big game animals.

In this classic work now available in paperback, Sherwood explores the distorted science, the menace of new technolo-gies, environmental imperatives, pressures from a uniquely structured population, the traditional hostility of farmer and fisherman toward animal predators, and an atavistic belief in man’s right to shoot wild animals when he chose.

In concise and clear prose, Sherwood charts the history of this environmental and political conflict. An incisive historical study of the flawed attempts to govern big game predation, Big Game in Alaska will be essential reading for historians and environmentalists alike.




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CrAig w. Allin is professor of political science at Cornell College, iowa.

September 2008Political Science6 x 9.5, 368 pagesPaperback $14.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-025-5

The Politics of Wilderness PreservationCraig W. Allin

The United States has led the world in wilderness preserva-tion. The story of preservation politics in America is one of the seminal stories of American history, charting our evolu-tion as a people and a culture. Public policy is a measure of what we value as a society. Originally regarded as a power-ful enemy, wilderness was the target of countless land laws aimed at its destruction. Once it had been largely defeated, wilderness came to be seen as a vanishing and valuable resource and an essential contributor to the American character.

In the post-Kyoto climate with earth in the balance and en-vironmental policy apparently paralyzed, it seems appropri-ate to celebrate an era when government policy makers were able—if only for a moment—to elbow aside vested economic interests and embrace the preservation of nature for its own sake. Allin explores the far-reaching political and economic impact of these policies, as well as their status today and their uncertain future. With its timely, cutting-edge analysis, The Politics of Wilderness Preservation is a must-read for environmentalists and policy makers alike.

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September 2008History • Military • Transportation6 x 9, 273 pages, b&w photos, line drawings, mapPaperback $21.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-037-8

DAViD reMleY was born in glendale, California, in 1931. he received his undergraduate degree from wabash College in 1954 and his Ph.D from indiana University in 1967. he retired early from teaching to write full time in 1987. he now lives in new Mexico and rides a sure-footed bay horse as often as he can.

Crooked Road

David R. Remley

In Crooked Road, Remley has managed to convey both fact and feeling, presented in a roughly chronological sequence from the day the highway was authorized by Roosevelt in February 1942 as a hedge against enemy-beachhead in Alaska . . . Crooked Road . . . is especially readable because Remley incorporated the oral tradition. The best part of the bargain is that Crooked Road doesn’t have a spider web windshield, and you don’t have to sweat the knee-deep potholes.

—Brad Matsen, Juneau, Alaska, Empire

Crooked Road tells the tale of how the Alaska Highway was built during World War II under the 1942 authorization of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ordered its construc-tion for the joint defense of the United States and Canada.

David Remley shares the story, not only of the Americans and Canadians who mapped and built the road, but also of the people who lived in the vast trackless area before the road came and those who drive the road now—truckers, tourists, and migrants. Crooked Road draws upon archival images and oral histories and ultimately offers a fascinat-ing historical account of the expansion of the American landscape. As he notes, “Oral history, since it is the stuff of memory, is often unreliable as to the cold facts, but it . . . gives the shape of the character and the temper of the people of a special time and place.”

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DerMot Cole is a longtime columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. he is fascinated by the history of Alaska and has written extensively on the subject for over twenty years. Cole lives outside Fairbanks with his wife, Debbie, and their three children.

October 2008History6 x 9, 224 pages, b&w historical photosPaperback $14.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-030-9

Fairbanks

Dermot Cole

Fairbanks is a town founded by accident. Nature played a joke on Ohio fortune hunter E. T. Barnette when low water forced him to unload a sternwheeler cargo of trading goods short of his destination over one hundred years ago. But the accidental founder of Fairbanks soon had a reversal of for-tune. Italian-born Felix Pedro found gold in the nearby hills. Barnette prospered until his shady practices caught up with him, while the new gold rush town took off on a turbulent ride through the twentieth century.

While other gold rush towns became ghost towns, Fairbanks survived floods, fires, a harsh climate, and an economic his-tory with as many peaks and valleys as the Alaska Range. It attracted fools and visionaries, characters and people with character, and above all men and women with determina-tion and grit who came to stay. The city drew strength from its isolation to become the regional hub of transportation, resource development, education, and government that it is today. Fairbanks is a fascinating historical saga of one of the last cities to be established on the American frontier.




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John StrAleY was educated in Seattle and new York City, graduating from the University of washington in 1977. he has been a wilderness guide, woods worker, secretary, apprentice machinist, a novelist, and for almost twenty-five years, a criminal defense investigator. in 2006 he was named the twelfth Alaska writer laureate. he is currently a criminal defense investigator for Alaska’s Public Defender Agency. in May 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. he lives in Sitka, Alaska, with his wife Janice.

October 2008Poetry6 x 9, 68 pagesPaperback $19.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-033-0

The Rising and the Rain

John Straley

The Rising and the Rain is Alaska novelist John Straley’s first book of poetry. Straley crafts here a collection of poems that pay homage to his home in the Pacific Northwest and south-eastern Alaska. His narrative poetry is infused with sharp wit and delicate details, as he meditates on the natural world of the Pacific coastline and its rhythmic seasonal patterns, cycles of rain, and rich abundance. Straley intertwines the personal and political to create elegies of refreshing honesty and universal scope, making The Rising and the Rain a pow-erful work by one of the top emerging poets today.




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October 2008Ethnography • Native American Studies7 x 10, 384 pages, b&w photosHardcover $49.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-027-9

toM lowenStein first visited Alaska in 1973. on field trips throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he recorded traditional narratives and songs at Point hope and in other inupiaq communities. in addition to writing books evoking pre-contact life in Point hope, he has compiled educational materials for the Alaska State Museum and the north Slope Borough. A guggenheim Fellow in 1979, his other writings include studies of Buddhist thought and art and several volumes of his own poetry. he lives in london, england.

Ultimate Americans

Tom Lowenstein

Tom Lowenstein explores the convergence and mutual as-similation of two very different worlds. The present volume, in complement to the two earlier volumes about traditional life, examines what happened when the Tikigaq (Point Hope) people met Euro-Americans.

Focusing on the nineteenth century, Ultimate Americans surveys the three-fold interaction between Alaska Natives, commercial whalemen, and missionaries. While alcohol and contact disease destabilized nineteenth-century Alaska Native populations, the period covered in this study has a happier conclusion. The community of Point Hope survived the upheavals of the nineteenth century, testimony to the endurance of this ancient people. Today’s population of eight hundred people continues to build with confidence on their long inheritance. An in-depth historical chronicle, Ultimate Americans will be invaluable reading for histori-ans, ethnographers, and anthropologists alike.




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rAY hUDSon lived in the Aleutian islands from 1964 to 1992, and there his heart remains even though he now lives in Middlebury, Vermont, with his wife, Shelly. A graduate of the University of washington, hudson studied woodblock printing with lu Fang at the Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy in hangzhou. he is the recipient of the national education Association’s leo reano Award for his work with First Americans. in 1990, he received the governor’s Award for the Arts from the Alaska State Council on the Arts.

October 2008Anthropology • Ethnography • Culture6 x 9, 256 pages, b&w photos, color photos, bibliography, indexHardcover $45.00 / isbn 978-1-60223-028-6

An Aleutian Ethnography

Edited by Ray L. Hudson

Lucien Turner (1847–1909) was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries. Now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. He alone made a concerted effort to learn Aleut and therefore could communicate more or less directly with the local popula-tion. Turner spent more continuous time in the Aleutians than other researchers. He interacted with Aleuts on a day-to-day basis, shared some of their difficulties, and felt at home enough to joke with them. And finally, the collections he made in the Aleutians surpass all others from the late nineteenth century and provide researchers and contempo-rary Unangan glimpses into an irrecoverable past. It is this collection that forms Turner’s primary legacy.

Turner’s admittedly fragmentary ethnographic notes reveal valuable insights into Aleutian cultures and the outsiders who lived among them in the nineteenth century. Carefully edited by Ray Hudson, An Aleutian Ethnography is an es-sential resource for scholars of American history and the history of anthropology alike.




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Just north of the Arctic Circle sits Kotzebue, a town of the Inupiat people that has endured for over a century. In this compelling visual essay, Dennis Witmer cap-tures scenes on its Front Street, the main thorough-fare whose buildings have evolved from the sod huts of Native cultures to permanent wood and concrete edifices. From front yards with parked snowmachines to townspeople peacefully strolling down sidewalks, the striking black-and-white images in Front Street, Kotzebue offer a thought-provoking view of life in the Arctic and people’s methods of coexisting with the brutality of nature.

Front Street, KotzebueDennis Witmer

October 2008Photography11 x 11, 60 pages, duotone photographsHardcover $50.00 / isbn 978-0-9771028-1-5

DenniS witMer is a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks energy Center.




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November 2008Ethnography • Native Culture • Art8 x 10, 160 pages, color illustrations

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FréDériC lAUgrAnD is a professor at the Département d’anthropologie/CiérA, Université laval, Québec, Canada.

JAriCh ooSten is a professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, leiden, the netherlands.

Sea Woman

Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten

The Sea Woman, brimming with beautiful color photo-graphs and depictions of Inuit art, offers a detailed and in-depth look into the world of Inuit shamanism. Angakkuuniq, or shamanism, played a central part in Inuit culture before the adoption of Christianity. In south Baffin Land, “The persons, who can see the souls of men and of animals and who are able to visit Sedna, are called angakut (angakkuit).” They cured the sick, drove away evil spirits, procured game, influenced the weather, and exposed hidden transgres-sions. We depend on their accounts for our knowledge and understanding of the various categories of nonhuman beings inhabiting the Inuit world.

When Christianity arrived, shamanism went underground, but even today shamanism plays an important part in Inuit discourses. Sickness and death may still be attributed to the machinations of evil angakkuit, shamans, or spirits. The au-thors explore how this is reflected and expressed in Inuit art. As the authors document here, despite the current domi-nance of Christianity, contemporary Inuit life and culture is still powerfully shaped by the shaman tradition. The authors focus on representations of the sea woman as an example of shamanism contextualized in art and explore what these depictions reveal about the fascinating and complex dia-logue between Inuit and Western cultures in the twentieth century.




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November 2008Photography • Native American Studies12 x 9, 160 pages, color photographsHardcover $65.00 / isbn 978-1-60223-045-3

The Aleutian Islands of Alaska

Ken Wilson

In this compelling blend of words and vibrant images, Ken Wilson captures a complex portrait of the Aleutian Islands and their peoples. A book years in the making, The Aleutian Islands of Alaska presents a collection of striking photographs that powerfully depict the islands’ tumultuous weather and stunning landscape that makes the islands at once notorious and alluring. Wilson’s stunning images capture the islands’ unpredictable moods, from the swirling fogs to the windy shores to the lush greens of summer.

The accompanying essays tell of life on the islands: the stories of the Unangan people, who have made the islands their homes for centuries, tell of ancestral ties and ancient legends that ground their connections to their home. In contrast, the anecdotes from tourists and newer residents discuss the allure of the islands’ tempestuous beauty and the rich history of the region.

A groundbreaking work of photography and oral history, The Aleutian Islands of Alaska is a captivating volume that writes a new chapter in the documented history of Alaska life and culture.

As a photographer, ken wilSon has worked primarily in the southeastern United States. his photos have appeared in Audubon magazine, Time magazine’s Time for Kids, Outdoor Photographer, National Wildlife magazine, Bugle, North American Elk magazine, and various regional and local publications. his passion in recent years has been collecting images in the Aleutian islands of Alaska. he spent nearly three years throughout the islands gathering images for this book. Before he became a freelance photographer, wilson spent thirty-five years in the newspaper industry in north Carolina and wyoming. his last stop was in waynesville, north Carolina, in the southern Appalachian Mountains, where for twenty years he published The Mountaineer, a community newspaper.




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linDA JohnSon is the director of library, Archives, and records Management at Yukon College, Yukon territory, Canada.

November 2008Geography • Culture • History6 x 9, 160 pages, mapHardcover $34.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-032-3

The Kandik MapLinda Johnson

More than a hundred years ago, an Indian named Paul Kandik and French explorer Francois Mercier lived in and traveled the Kandik country and made a map now known as the Kandik Map. Today, travelers drive through the winter snows or summer splendor of the Alaska-Yukon borderlands on the Alaska Highway, going from one warm, well-lit com-munity to the next in just a few hours. In the summer, the more adventurous can hike the Fortymile uplands or cruise from Dawson to Eagle on a catamaran. Both long-time residents and newly arrived visitors may marvel at services available to travelers in this vast land.

Drawing on historical letters, geographical analysis, and the original map itself, held in the University of California’s Bancroft Library, Johnson produces a groundbreaking study on the history of the Kandik Map and reveals its significant implications for Native American scholarship.



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John eVAngeliSt wAlSh is the author of biographies on robert Frost, edgar Allan Poe, and John keats, among others, and is the author of the definitive article on the legend of Babe ruth’s “called shot.” he lives in Monroe, wisconsin.

November 2008Literature • Nonfiction6 x 9, 197 pages, b&w photos/illustrationsHardcover $26.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-029-3

When the Laughing Stopped

John Evangelist Walsh

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln’s death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Walsh recalls the events of that day and the plane crash that ended it all.

The plane carrying Rogers and aviator Wiley Post fatally crashed in a lagoon just outside of Barrow, Alaska, on August 15, 1935. Walsh retells the tragic tale from various angles, primarily alternating between Rogers and Post’s journey and the actions of the two men’s families on that fateful day. In particular, Walsh reveals moving details about the families and their struggle with grief, such as the fact that Rogers’ daughter, Mary, was in a stage play about plane crashes at the time of the crash and how she never fully recovered from her father’s death, subsequently abandoning her promising acting career.

When the Laughing Stopped is a gripping and poignant retelling of the death of a beloved American legend, and it shines a humanizing light upon a pivotal moment in American history and culture. Walsh has produced a fast-paced, engaging story.




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November 2008Folklore and Mythology6 x 9, 88 pagesPaperback $19.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-031-6

The Longest Story Ever Told

Emily Ivanoff Brown (Ticasuk)

It was as fascinating to watch her talk as it was to listen to what she was saying. And it was wonderful to listen, enjoying not only the quiet power of her narrative but also the way she studded her sentences with Native names and words—umiak, ugruk, ulu—each defined for the benefit of people like myself, causing me, as their cadences became wedged in my mind, to allow myself to believe that I was being welcomed into a private, almost confidential, world.

—Eliot Wigginton

The story of Qayaq is one of the most enduring legends of Alaska folklore, and now this revised edition of the text by Emily Ivanoff Brown presents the myth for the modern reader in vivid detail. The Longest Story Ever Told recounts the epic tale of the hero Qayaq as he leaves his home in Siilvik Lake and journeys across northern Alaska and Canada. Talking animals, supernatural gods, and Qayaq’s many adventures weave together in this lyrical oral narra-tive, which took days or even weeks for actual tribal story-tellers to recite. Enhanced with a new scholarly introduc-tion, The Longest Story Ever Told is a masterpiece of Alaska folklore that shares the richness of Eskimo literary heritage.

eMilY iVAnoFF Brown, or ticasuk, was born in 1904 and was an elementary school teacher who spent her life collecting native oral histories and trying to preserve her people’s history and culture. She is also the author of Tales of Ticasuk (University of Alaska Press, 1987).




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will troYer had a thirty-year career in Alaska with the U.S. Department of the interior, mostly as a wildlife biologist. he published numerous popular and scientific articles and photographs in Alaska Magazine, Natural History, Outdoor Life, Nature Photographer, and other magazines and professional journals. he is the author of two other books: Into Brown Bear Country and From Dawn to Dusk: Memoirs of an Amish-Mennonite Farm Boy. he received the prestigious olaus Murie award in 1987 for his conservation efforts. troyer holds a master’s degree in wildlife technology from the University of Montana.

November 2008Memoir6 x 9, 256 pages, b&w photosHardcover $26.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-043-9

Bear Wrangler

Will Troyer

Alaska was not yet a state when Will Troyer began his thirty-year wildlife career in 1951 with the Department of the Interior.

In 1955, he became manager of the brown bear refuge on Kodiak Island. Here, he and his assistants pioneered the first primitive techniques for capturing brown bears to gather biological information. This involved trapping bears in foot snares, lassoing them, and forcing a bucket of ether over their heads to subdue them. Years later, after more modern equipment became available, he anesthetized the big bears in Katmai National Park by sneaking through the woods with a Cap-Chur Gun and shooting them at close range with a drug-filled dart.

Troyer worked in many remote areas of Alaska, from the Arctic Coast to the southeast rain forest and the stormy Aleutian Islands. He vividly describes his emotions and feel-ings while standing in the midst of 40,000 caribou or sitting on a remote sea island as masses of sea birds glide, swoop, and circle around him emitting a din of raucous calls. His descriptive walk through a delta marsh filled with thousands of nesting and calling shorebirds, ducks, and geese reveals his love and wonder of nature. Bear Wrangler is an absorb-ing tale of one man’s experience as an authentic pioneer in the last vestiges of American wilderness.



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MiChAel engelhArD was born in germany and moved to Alaska at the age of thirty. he is an experienced wilderness guide and freelance writer. he splits his time between the Colorado Plateau and Fairbanks, Alaska.

February 2009Literary Essays • Nature6 x 9, 220 pages, artistic line drawingsPaperback $21.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-048-4

Wild Moments

Edited by Michael Engelhard

Even in our technological age, run-ins with wildlife—wheth-er in urban or wilderness settings—rupture daily routines. They delight or dismay but hardly ever leave us unmoved. Not unlike us and often within sight of our doorsteps or tents, wild animals court, mate, give birth, raise their young, fight, play, build, forage, and die. We cherish these chance meetings and continue to fashion them into stories that remind us of fundamentals: Our heritage. Our connections. Our responsibilities.

Wild Moments brings readers face to face with the North’s incredible fauna, through accounts by the best of contem-porary nature writers that transcend the mere hunting-and-fishing or natural history narrative. The book’s thirty-three selections showcase different species and capture wild animals in their essence: the magic and unpredictability, the humor, the pathos, the offbeat, bone-and-gristle, the smell of blood and the softness of fur. Crows battle each other and bears pilfer fruit; a trapped marten rubs shoulders with a drowning whale; dive-bombing goshawks mingle with feisty seals. In many of these stories the personal intersects the political, but all of the writers are stalking bigger game with their pens: a glimpse of nature, including our own, reflected in the lives of fellow beings. Smart, witty, wise, perplexed, or enchanted but always engaged, their voices mix in a chorus as polyglot as the menagerie they describe.

While these essays are rooted in landscapes known inti-mately by only few people, each touches upon universal themes—the desires and dilemmas, fears and choices that spring from our tangling with wildness. Above all, they remind us what is at risk of being lost.



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March 2009Nature • Life Sciences7 x 10, maps and b&w illustrationsHardcover $45.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-047-7

Mammals of AlaskaStephen O. MacDonald and Joseph A. Cook

This timely catalog is the first comprehensive overview of Alaska’s 115 species of mammals. Combining extensive fieldwork with reviews of existing materials and specimens in natural history museums, state and federal agencies, and rural communities, the authors have produced a unique reference source. Detailed entries for each species include summaries of new distribution and taxonomic information, status, habitat affinities, and fossil history.

The text is generously illustrated with maps showing the species’ population and locations of the specimen re-cord, and sprinkled with line drawings by Alaska artist W. D. Berry. Appendices include quick reference listings of mammal distribution by region, where specimen collec-tions are located, conservation status, and the occurrence of Pleistocene mammals.



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February 2009Biography & Autobiography6 x 9, 200 pages, 19 b&w illustrationsPaperback $17.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-056-9

eDnA wilDer was born in Bluff, Alaska, a small mining community just northwest of rocky Point on the Bering Sea. She paints in watercolor and oil and sculpts in wood and soapstone. She has instructed classes in skin-sewing and basket-weaving at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for over twenty years. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, with her husband, Alex.

Once Upon an Eskimo TimeEdna Wilder

Readers of whatever age will enjoy Nedercook’s delightful account of the day-to-day, legends, and beliefs of the ancient Eskimo village of Rocky Point.

—Ames Tribune

Once Upon an Eskimo Time is a delightful . . . biography that described a year in the life of the author’s mother. . . . If you are seriously interested in Eskimos . . . I would suggest you try to find a copy.

—American Indian Quarterly

“‘Spring,’ Nedercook said softly as she lifted her face toward the sky. There was evident joy and relief in her whispered words. ‘It is spring.’ She breathed deeply of the sweet spring air, which caressed her face.” The eloquence with which Edna Wilder records her mother’s life shows the utmost re-spect the Eskimo people have for their oral tradition. Of the events that occurred in Nedercook’s 121-year life, it is the times she describes the weather and the harshest of climates on Alaska’s Norton Sound that reflect the hardiness of char-acter in both mother and daughter. Edna Wilder takes great care in retelling a year in her mother’s life.

Once Upon an Eskimo Time is a splendid retelling of the stories and oral traditions passed on by Nedercook. Family values, the weather, subsistence living, and the cycles of life play key roles in a narrative that opens a window into the now-vanished lifestyle along the Bering Sea.



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The Eskimo Girl and the EnglishmanEdna Wilder

Eskimo Girl and the Englishman is a sequel to the delight-ful story Once Upon an Eskimo Time. In the first story, the author recounts the remarkable life of her Eskimo mother, growing up in a traditional, precontact village on the west coat of Alaska. This story begins the day Minnie encounters her first white man, a turning point that would expand her world of tundra, sea, and snow to include a new people and their technologies: matches, guns, electricity, and a different world view.

The story stretches over the next century of Minnie’s ad-venturous life, covering her meeting with Sam Tucker, the “Englishman” she married, and their isolated, rugged life on the Seward Peninsula. It is a tale of grit, determination, strength, and the courage to live life in the face of tragedy, personal loss, and hardship.

Accompanied by photographs of village life in the early twentieth century and of Minnie and Sam engaged in daily activities, the narrative presents us with a sense of a now-vanished lifestyle along the Bering Sea.

February 2009Biography6x9, approx 160 pages, b&w photos, mapPaperback $16.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-015-6

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February 2009Poetry6 x 9, 208 pagesPaperback $22.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-050-7

For the Sake of the Light

Tom Sexton

“If a door opens/ it will enter/ as it always has.” This line from one of Sexton’s poems captures the feeling of this collection of poems. Each page opens a door, allowing the essence of life in Alaska and Maine, among birch and aspen, lynx and ptarmigan, and snow on high peaks, to whisper to us. There are poems that reveal the secrets of flickers and ermine and salmon. Others explore the blurry interface between the human heart and encounters with wild, the seasons, and endless mountains.

toM Sexton was appointed Alaska’s Poet laureate in 1995 and is the author of eight books of poetry. his latest, A Clock With No Hands (Adastra 2007), is a collection of poems about growing up in lowell, Massachusetts. Sexton and his wife, Sharyn, spend every other winter in eastport, Maine, and the summers in Anchorage, Alaska.



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Letters from AlaskaJohn Muir edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell

April 2009History • Alaska6 x 9, 147 pagesPaperback $16.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-055-2

John MUir became one of America’s most famous and influential conservationists of all time. in 1892 he and his supporters founded the Sierra Club, which he served as president for the rest of his life, “to do something for wildness.” he was the author of many books and countless articles.

During 1879 and 1880, John Muir traveled the waters of southeast Alaska in a Tlingit Indian dugout canoe. Letters from Alaska follows Muir on these voyages in a series of articles he wrote for the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. Here we find the original versions of the letters, each reworked from journal accounts jotted down during his travels. They have the freshness, immediacy, and candor that mark Muir’s best writing.

In these pages are rare accounts of southeast Alaska history. Muir records his scientific observations of glaciers and viv-idly describes Alaska in its early days. Through Muir’s eyes we see gold miners, Fort Wrangel, Sitka, Taku Inlet, Endicott Arm, Glacier Bay, the infancy of the tourist industry, and the Native Tlingit Indians’ struggle to retain their culture in the face of Presbyterian attempts to convert them.

Muir’s century-old accounts can be used as a guide for mod-ern ship-borne tourists following the sea routes of his canoe voyages. Yet Muir’s letters are more than simple descrip-tions of wilderness. With every stroke of paddle and pen, Muir was spreading his gospel: that wilderness adventures ultimately provide for journeys of the spirit. He loved the Alaska wilderness as a place in which it was still possible to be wild. He urged Americans to journey north. “Go,” he said, “go and see. . . .”



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The Frontier in Alaska and the Matanuska ColonyOrlando W. Miller

April 2009History • Alaska6 x 9, 342 pages, maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index Paperback $23.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-053-8

An eloquent commentary on the frontier syndrome as it survives today. In the course of describing what Alaska was really like between 1900 and 1930, Miller gives us the most realistic account of the Giant of the North I have ever read.—Howard R. Lamar, former president of Yale University and editor

of The New Encyclopedia of the American West

Alaska excites the imagination as the Last Frontier. After Frederick Jackson Turner famously announced the end of the western frontier in the 1890s, the frontier in Alaska persisted. Orlando W. Miller’s classic work, first published in 1975 and now in paperback for the first time, is the defini-tive case study of the government-subsidized settlement program in the Matanuska Valley of southcentral Alaska, now the location of the towns of Wasilla and Palmer. Miller documents the efforts to colonize and develop Alaska before 1930 and details the history of the Matanuska Valley colony from its inception until the 1970s. Even though the colony is held up as one of the New Deal’s most extravagant failures, Miller makes a convincing argument that much of today’s agricultural success can be traced back to the activity surrounding this enterprise. Miller’s analysis is rooted in the examination of the Alaska frontier myth, and he does a wonderful job of differentiating between real pioneering and frontier mythology.

orlando w. Miller was a professor of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.



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April 2009Historic Photos6 x 9, 358 pages, historic photosPaperback $23.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-054-5

North of 53°

William R. Hunt

Here is the story of the rough, bawdy, adventurous men and women who brought Alaska and the Yukon to national attention in the gold rush of 1897. Now in paperback, this classic book provides a rare glimpse at the social players that pique the armchair historian’s attention.

Hunt has written an anecdotal narrative that follows hungry prospectors, canny shopkeepers, hopeful hangers-on, and crafty lawyers through a succession of gold camps and tem-porary towns stretching north from Skagway to Dawson and Circle on the Yukon, deep in the northern Interior, and then west through the flashes of Rampart, Ruby, and Iditarod to Nome on the Bering Sea. “Saints and sinners, whores and housewives, swindlers and laborers alike,” writes Hunt, “attempted a hasty adjustment to novel conditions in a land that seemed strange and forbidding.”

North of 53˚ is a rigorous social document supported by the records and diaries of the people who built Alaska. It takes us right to the center of the whirlwind story of Alaska’s Yukon gold seekers.

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williAM r. hUnt was a professor of history at the University of Alaska who was an active member of many historical societies.



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Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. RuleSonia Luehrmann

Like the nesting matrioshka dolls found in Russian-American gift shops, Sonja Luerhmann’s book is a matrioshka of his-tory, examining Alutiiq history within Russian and American colonial periods, within the larger context of Russian and American expansion.

The author uses English and Russian source material to create a work that focuses on the intersection of two colonial per-spectives, throwing light on the differences in the way each society incorporated the Alutiiq community, as a labor force and as a social entity.

Drawing on Russian American Company correspondence and records from the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, the author reconstructs a picture of the relationship between the first colonizers and the Alutiiq. American colonization, which began with the purchase of Alaska in 1867, coincided with the decline of the sea otter population, ushering in a new economic pattern and a new order of life.

Luehrmann examines the changing patterns in settlement and demography of the Alutiiq as the population responded to the conditions they encountered: economic exploitation, new cultural influences and inter-marriage, disease, and the eruption of Novarupta.

The addition of Russian source material to the ongoing research on the area fills in important blanks in a unique history and serves as a major resource for anyone working on Alutiiq history or the history of the Russian colonial period in the region.

April 2009History • Alaska Native6x9, 221 pages, b&w historical photos, maps, bibliography, indexPaperback $19.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-023-1

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Letters from AlaskaJohn Muir edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell

April 2009History • Alaska6 x 9, 147 pagesPaperback $16.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-055-2

John MUir became one of America’s most famous and influential conservationists of all time. in 1892 he and his supporters founded the Sierra Club, which he served as president for the rest of his life, “to do something for wildness.” he was the author of many books and countless articles.

During 1879 and 1880, John Muir traveled the waters of southeast Alaska in a Tlingit Indian dugout canoe. Letters from Alaska follows Muir on these voyages in a series of articles he wrote for the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. Here we find the original versions of the letters, each reworked from journal accounts jotted down during his travels. They have the freshness, immediacy, and candor that mark Muir’s best writing.

In these pages are rare accounts of southeast Alaska history. Muir records his scientific observations of glaciers and viv-idly describes Alaska in its early days. Through Muir’s eyes we see gold miners, Fort Wrangel, Sitka, Taku Inlet, Endicott Arm, Glacier Bay, the infancy of the tourist industry, and the Native Tlingit Indians’ struggle to retain their culture in the face of Presbyterian attempts to convert them.

Muir’s century-old accounts can be used as a guide for mod-ern ship-borne tourists following the sea routes of his canoe voyages. Yet Muir’s letters are more than simple descrip-tions of wilderness. With every stroke of paddle and pen, Muir was spreading his gospel: that wilderness adventures ultimately provide for journeys of the spirit. He loved the Alaska wilderness as a place in which it was still possible to be wild. He urged Americans to journey north. “Go,” he said, “go and see. . . .”



SPRING 2009

Old Yukon

James Wickersham

No other man has made as deep and varied imprints on Alaska’s heritage, whether it be in politics, government, commerce, literature, history or philosophy. A federal judge, member of Congress, attorney and explorer, present-day Alaska is deeply in debt to him.

—Evangeline Atwood, author of Frontier Politics

In an upbeat and humorous style, James Wickersham de-scribes his time as a pioneer judge assigned to a vast snow-covered and undeveloped district extending over 300,000 square miles. His adventures include deciding on hundreds of mining cases in the midst of the gold strikes, holding trial for famous outlaws, traveling by dogsled and by foot for hundreds of miles over snow-covered mountains in subzero weather to hold court, and pioneering a judicial system in the Last Frontier. Despite his busy schedule, Wickersham maintained a lifestyle not unlike his fellow Alaskans: he was a hunter, miner, and climber. His lasting legacies are evi-dent throughout the state and most notably in the town he named, Fairbanks.

JAMeS wiCkerShAM was a statesman, author, historian, and scholar. he died in 1939 in Juneau, Alaska.

May 2009History • Alaska7 x 10, approx. 500 pages, b&w photosPaperback $36.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-051-4



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SVen hAAkAnSon, Jr., is the director of the Alutiiq Museum and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Dr. haakanson enjoys traveling, working, and sharing Alutiiq crafts with the youth in the villages on kodiak island. he serves on the Alaska State Council on the Arts and has been collaborating with european museums on several projects, sharing his knowledge of Alutiiq culture and heritage in Alaska. he lives in kodiak, Alaska.

AMY SteFFiAn is the deputy director of the Alutiiq Museum. She lives in kodiak, Alaska.

May 2009Alaska Native Art • Anthropology9 x 10, photographs of all masksPaperback $26.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-049-1

It’s like looking inside a jewel box.—museum staff member’s observation of the exhibit

In May of 2008, the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, hosted an extraordinary exhibit of thirty-three ceremonial masks from the Pinart Collection of Alutiiq masks. The masks, collected in 1871 by a young Frenchman studying Native cultures, are the largest known set of Alutiiq masks carved in the traditional style by some of the last artists to learn their trade through apprenticeship.

For more than a century the masks resided quietly in a small museum in France, preserving the ancestral information and cultural inspiration of its origins. This catalog celebrates the reconnection of the masks to their cultural context and re-establishes an important link between the Alutiiq people and their rich artistic and ceremonial culture.

Stunning photographs and enlightening text in English, French, and Alutiiq give readers and collectors a window into the past with this remarkable collection.

Giinaquq: Like a Face

Edited by Sven D. Haakanson, Jr., and Amy F. Steffian


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Bestselling Backlist

Outside in the Interior

Kyle Joly

The Climate of AlaskaMartha Shulski and Gerd Wendler

In this book, outdoor enthusiasts of all abilities will find essential information on more than fifty hikes, bikes, skis, strolls, and floats. From pushing a stroller down a paved trail to climbing rugged peaks and from rafting rivers to skiing through a winter wonderland, the Interior has many opportunities for recreation. This book covers trails originating from the road system of interior Alaska and notes which

ones are restricted to nonmotorized access. Each description includes round-trip distance, estimated duration and difficulty, highest elevation, best season to go, what land management agency is responsible for the area, a narrative about the trip, directions on how to get to the access point, and things to watch out for. Maps and photos accompany each description.

Outside in the Interior also discusses good trail etiquette, safety, and the environment of interior Alaska. This book is an essential guide for the outdoor enthusiast, whether you are an Alaskan or just visiting.

6 x 9, 272 pages, color maps and photos, index paper $19.95 / isbn: 978-1-889963-99-0

Provides an updated climatology of Alaska, illustrating the diverse range of climate in this vast state. It includes charts and figures with thorough explanations. The concepts are clearly presented, easily understood by most nonspecialists, and orga-nized in a logical order. It contains a narrative discussion along with maps, tables, and charts for various climatological parameters across the state, and is organized by climatological parameter, including temperature and humidity, precipitation, clouds and radiation, atmospheric pressure and wind, regional topics (covering thunderstorms and wildfire, air quality, and sea ice), and climate change.

People interested in travelling to or moving to Alaska, tourists wondering what type of weather condi-tions to expect on their summer visit, and scientific researchers involved in climate-sensitive studies will all find this book extremely useful. Those involved in construction, resource and energy development, and agriculture, among others, should find this information valuable for planning activities.

6 x 9, 224 pages, maps, graphs, and color photos, bibliography, index paper $21.95 / isbn 978-1-60223-007-1





Last Great Wilderness

Roger Kaye

GraniteSusan Butcher and David Monson; illustrated by Sarah Douglas

The Little Fox

Written and Illustrated by Ram Papish

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of the conflict between America’s demand for oil and nature at its most pristine. Three decades before the battle over oil development began, a group of visionary conservationists launched a controver-sial campaign to preserve a remote corner of Alaska. Their goal was unprecedented—to protect an entire ecosystem for future generations. Last Great Wilderness chronicles their fight, tracing the transformation of this little-known expanse of mountains, forest, and tundra into a symbolic land-scape embodying the ideals and aspirations that led to passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.

6 x 9, 304 pages, maps, bibliography, index Hardcover $29.95 / isbn 978-1-889963-83-9

Follow the adventures of an arctic fox on an island in the Bering Sea. When the ice he is sleeping on breaks up and floats away, Little Fox is accidentally transported to an island. As he explores his new home, he meets seabirds and fur seals and learns about their lives. Written and illustrated by a field biologist with years of experi-

ence in Alaska, The Little Fox introduces young readers to the animals of the Bering Sea—the sounds they make, their sometimes unusual appearance, and how they survive the short, intense arctic summer.

8½ x 11, 38 pages, color illustrations hardcover $15.95 / isbn 1-889963-87-9

Susan Butcher was a four-time champion of the Iditarod Trail sled dog race. Granite was her greatest lead dog, but he didn’t start that way. He was a shy, scraggly pup that the others pushed around, but Susan saw his potential. Together they worked until he became leader of the team.

While they were training for the Iditarod, Granite became deathly ill. The veterinarians said he would never be strong enough to run the race. Granite refused to accept this, and slowly he started to recover. By the time of the race he was strong enough to start, but Susan wondered if he could finish the entire thousand-mile race. Confidently Granite guided the team into the lead of the race, when suddenly they were caught in a raging arctic blizzard. Now Susan and the whole team depended on Granite to get them through the storm. He had to call on all his inner strength and courage to save them—if he could.

11 x 8½, 36 pages, 23 full color illustrations hardcover $16.95 / isbn 978-0-9754029-1-7 paperback $9.95 / isbn 978-0-9754029-0-0




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Alaska at War 1941–1945

Ice Window

The Thousand-Mile War

Garfield writes with the fast action and drama of a successful novelist. —The Northern Review

The Thousand-Mile War is a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific and has been acclaimed as one of the

great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign.

6 x 9, 478 pages, b&w photos, map, bibliography, addendum, index paperback $24.95 / isbn 978-0-912006-83-3

In the last two hundred years, only one U.S. territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska in World War II. Alaska at War brings readers face to face with World War II in the North Pacific. Covers the Japanese invasion of the islands of Attu and Kiska, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, the role of minorities in the northern conflict, the American campaign to recover the occupied Aleutians, the effects of the war on film, race relations, the construc-tion of the Alaska Highway, the Lend-Lease program, and how to preserve historic sites in a challenging Alaska environment.

8 ½ x 11, 474 pages, b&w photos, bibliography, index paperback $29.95 /ISBN 13: 978-1-60223-013-2

2002 Pathfinder Award Winner, Alaska Historical Society

A young, optimistic teacher eager to work with another culture, Ellen Lopp wel-comed the challenges that life in an isolated coastal village of northwest Alaska of-

fered. Unlike many teachers and missionaries, the Lopps accepted the villagers as their friends rather than people to be subjugated. Ellen shared her observations and experiences in letters to family and friends. This window expands our knowledge of a vital period in Alaska history and offers an intimate view of people’s lives and turn-of-the-century events at Cape Prince of Wales.

8 x 10, 412 pages, photos, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index hardcover $34.95 / isbn 1-889963-20-8; paperback $24.95 / isbn 1-889963-21-6





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Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition 1-889963-53-4 (C)1-889963-29-1 (P)

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Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition 0-912006-93-5 (C)0-912006-94-3 (P)

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Aghvook, White Eskimo: Otto Geist and Alaskan Archaeology 978-1-60223-036-1 (P) $29.95Al Wright, Minto: A Biography 0-910871-13-2 (P) $8.95Alaska at War: The Forgotten War Remembered 978-1-60223-013-2 (P) $29.95Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins 0-912006-99-4 (P) $22.95Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity 1-889963-79-2 (C)

978-1-889963-79-2 (P)$65.00$32.95

Alaska Natives and American Laws (2nd edition) 1-889963-07-0 (C)1-889963-08-9 (P)

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Alaska Eskimo Footwear 978-1-889963-80-8 (C)978-1-60223-006-4 (P)

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Alaska Science Nuggets 0-912006-38-2 (P) $14.95Alaska Travel Journal of Archibald Menzies, 1793–1794 1-0912996-70-6 (P) $24.95Alaska Trees and Shrubs (2nd edition) 1-889963-86-0 (P) $24.95Alaska’s Constitutional Convention 0-912006-11-0 (P) $6.50Alaska’s Hidden Wars: Secret Campaigns on the North Pacific Rim 1-889963-63-1 (C)

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Alaska’s Search for a Killer: A Seafaring Medical Adventure 1946–1948 (s) 0-965984-91-5 (P) $21.95Alaskan Eskimo Life in 1890s, as Sketched by Native Artists 0-912006-79-x (P) $19.95Aleut Art: Aunangam Aguaqaadangin (2nd edition) 978-1-57864-214-4 (C) $49.95Aleutian Echoes 0-912006-74-9 (C) $45.00Aleutian Ethnography 978-1-60223-028-6 (C) $45.00The Aleutian Islands: Living on the Edge 978-1-60223-045-3 (C) $65.00Altona Brown, Ruby: A Biography 0-910871-06-x (P) $14.95Alutiiq Villages Under Russian and U.S. Rule 978-1-60223-010-1 (C)

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Arctic Village: A 1930s Portrait of Wiseman, Alaska 0-912006-51-x (P) $20.00Art and Eskimo Power 978-1-60223-021-7 (P) $16.95Artists Behind the Work (s) 0-931163-02-1 $19.95Aurora Watcher’s Handbook 0-912006-59-5 (C)

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Barrett Willoughby: Alaska’s Forgotten Lady 0-912006-76-5 (P) $14.95Bear Man of Admiralty Island 0-912006-81-1 (P) $15.00Bear Wrangler: Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist 978-1-60223-043-9 (C) $26.95Bering’s Voyages: The Reports from Russia 0-912006-22-6 (P) $18.95Big Game in Alaska: A History of Wildlife and People 978-1-60223-034-7 (P) $24.95Billy McCarty, Ruby: A Biography 0-910871-03-5 (P) $8.95Birds of the Seward Peninsula 978-0-912006-29-1 (C) $14.95Blue Babe: The Story of a Steppe Bison Mummy (s) 0-9293244-01-3 $7.95Bob Bartlett: A Life in Politics 0-912006-05-6 $12.95Building in the North 978-1-60223-019-4 (P) $16.95Campus Site: A Prehistoric Camp at Fairbanks, Alaska 0-912006-48-X (C)

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Century of Adventure in Northern Health: The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in Alaska, 1879-1978 (s)

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Changing Tracks: Predators and Politics in Mt. McKinley National Park 1-889963-52-6 (C)1-889963-17-8 (P)

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Chilkoot: An Adventure in Ecotourism 1-889963-54-2 (P) $24.95Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska 0-912006-58-7 (P) $23.95Chuck and Gladys Dart: A Biography 0-910871-07-8 (P) $9.95Climate of Alaska, The 978-1-60223-007-1 (P) $21.95College Hill Chronicles: How the University of Alaska

Came of Age (s)1-883309-01-8 (C) $35.00

Cornerstone on College Hill: An Illustrated History of the University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp Fairbanks, Alaska 978-0-912006-53-6 $8.95Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway 978-1-60223-037-8 (P) $21.95Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment 978-1-60223-022-4 (P) $26.95Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska 1-889963-74-7 (C) $39.95Documenting Alaska History: Guide to Federal Archives Relating to Alaska 0-912006-60-4 (C) $25.00Eastern Arctic Kayaks: History, Design, Technique 1-889963-25-9 (C)

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Empire’s Edge 978-1-889963-89-1 (P) $19.95 Enjoying a Life in Science: The Autobiography of P.F. Scholander 0-912006-37-4 (C) $18.00Ernest Gruening: Alaska’s Greatest Governor 1-889963-34-8 (C)

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Eskimo Architecture: Dwelling and Structure in the Early Historic Period 1-889963-22-4 (C)1-889963-67-9 (P)

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Eskimo Artists 0-912006-69-2 (P) $15.00Eskimo Drawings 978-1-885267-05-4 (P) $24.95Eskimo Girl and the Englishman 978-1-60223-016-3 (C)

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