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Cold River Spirits: The Legacy of an Athabascan-Irish Family from Alaska's Yukon River

9 reviews
Jan Harper Haines

Epicenter Press, 2000

Best book since TWO OLD WOMEN
COLD RIVER SPIRITS is a wonderful and welcome addition to my library. Jan Harper-Haines writes with wisdom and humor. She tells the story of her family with candor, helping readers appreciate the challenge of living in two cultures. The book is a fast read; I couldn't put it down. As a result, I gave several copies as holiday gifts to friends and family. COLD RIVER SPIRITS deserves five stars.

Mercy Pilot: The Joe Crosson Story

3 reviews
Dirk Tordoff

Epicenter Press, 2002

A real Alaskan story told by a real Alaskan
Mercy Pilot, the Joe Crosson Story is an enjoyable step into the early world of aviation. The book paints a facinating story from the point in 1913 that Joe and his sister Marvel first decide to become flyers, through Joe's early flights in Alaska, the Arctic and the Antarctic, his marriage to Lillian and family years, to building an airline that ultimately connected Alaska with the continental ...

Fashion Means Your Fur Hat is Dead: A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska

3 reviews
Mike Doogan

Epicenter Press, 1996

Warning! Not a real guide!
When my wife and I first moved to Alaska in 1987 we wanted to find out what Alaskans were like so we could try to fit in. We looked around and found Mike Doogan's guide - plus all of his weekly articles giving advice on how to live like a real Alaskan. (The other guide we found was Jeff Lowenfells.) I took Mike's advice seriously! Now 16 years later I had a chance to listen to Mike in person and ...

On the Edge of Nowhere

20 reviews
James Huntington

Epicenter Press, 2002

Alakan Sized Life!
What a great read! Awe Inspiring, Alaskan all the way. Does not get more raw than that! I grew up in the bush hearing tales of the good old days. This is a story worth every word.

Adventures of the Iditarod Air Force: True Stories About the Pilots Who Fly for Alaska's Famous Sled Dog Race

4 reviews
Ted Mattson

Epicenter Press, 1997

It is a good book on a subject not easy to record.
Ted acquaints the reader with stories that could only come from being a pilot himself. Having done some flying in the Alaskan bush, I became acquainted with the author and know of his intense love of the subject. I recommend readers also read "The Eye of the Rainbow", Ted Matson's first writing. You will have a greater respect of the Alaskan adventurer.

Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabaskan Legend from Alaska

9 reviews
Velma Wallis

Epicenter Press, 2003

Two Athabaskan legends become one great story
Velma Wallis, an Athabaskan Indian woman from Alaska, was set on codifying some of the legends that her mother had told her about their people. Her first endeavor, Two Old Women, became a bestseller. Her second project was the mingling of two legends she had heard throughout her childhood. Each of the stories were similar because they focused on "loners" or people who do not fit into the norm ...

Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska

4 reviews
Cecilia Kleinkauf

Epicenter Press, 2003

Ladies! You Will Want to Fish Alaska!
I just finished reading "Fly Fishing Women" by Ceclia "Pudge" Kleinkauf. The book is a written in a fashion to make you think you are right there fishing along side all these ladies from different parts of the country. As you travel with this group to different parts of Alaska, Pudge explains in each section the equipment used and flies to tie on. The photography is beautiful. At the end of the ...

Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River

9 reviews
Velma Wallis

Epicenter Press, 2003

Sad, but true.....
This story reminded me of my own growing-up years, not in Alaska, but on a reservation, nevertheless. It is a powerful book and reminds me of the strength our people have to survive, despite the odds, and interference of another culture. Velma, thanks for sharing in an honest and sensitive way, and letting us know we were not alone.

Arctic Bush Pilot

10 reviews
James "Andy" Anderson as told to Jim Reardon

Epicenter Press, 2000

Awesome book about the brave bush pilots!!!
This is a FANTASTIC book!! I simply could not put it down!! I bought it on the day I departed on my 4th trip to Alaska...the flight passed so quickly as I read page after page!! I read with great interest the section about Jules Thibedeau, my First Cousin who was a bush pilot from Barrow, AK in the 50's and 60's...his comments about Jules, "The Walking Pilot" brought back memories of the ...

Building the Alaska Log Home (Revised)

7 reviews
Tom Walker

Epicenter Press, 2007

Reasonble price for Building the Alaska Log Home
I called the publisher, Alaska Northwest books (ph# 1-800-452-3032). They will do another reprint of this book toward the end of the summer of 2006 (Aug/Sept). The cost of the book will be $29.99 plus shipping and handling. So why is the seller judioops trying to sell a used copy of this book for $87.99? If you want this book, wait until the publisher releases the reprint or call the ...

Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformes Life In...

2 reviews
Dermot Cole

Epicenter Press, 1997

Coletastic
While many would agree that the Cole clan of Fairbanks knows the story of the Interior, nobody can tell it like Dermot Cole. Cole is able to tell a tale about Alaska like no other Cole can. If you want to get a true slice of Interior life, then buy Dermot's books. His twin brother Terrance is not half bad either.

Tundra Teacher: A Memoir

3 reviews
John Foley

Epicenter Press, 2003

Funny and heartfelt
As a writer, Foley has a great voice and puts it to fine use telling tales of his twenty-something to thirtysomething years. Great fun to read for those of use who never had the nerve to actually act on the universal impulse to chuck it all and head off to the frontier.

Wild Critters

2 reviews
Tim Jones

Epicenter, 2007

Loveable, Amusing Alaskan Critters
I bought this book (along with some other children's books about Alaska) when we visited the state four summers ago. Our son was 6 at the time. Wild Critters was his (and my) favorite! It is sweetly amusing--with a photograph of a "wild critter" on one page and a short poem about it on the opposite page. A musk ox, fox, mountain goat, grizzly bear and many others are the subjects of these ...

Flying Cold: The Adventures of Russel Merrill, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator

2 reviews
Robert Merrill Maclean, Sean Rossiter

Epicenter Pr, 1994

Outstanding book on early alaskan aviation!
Heroic account of how Russell Hyde Merrill brought aviation to Anchorage Alaska. This book is a must read for pilots and anyone interested in Alaskan History and bush pilots. Merrill was an ex Navy pilot who was the fist man to fly into Petrsburg,Wrangell.Kodiak and Anchorage. He discovered Merrill Pass in the Alaska Range and put Anchorage on the map as the "Tranportation Hub of Alaska" He ...

Riding the Wild Side of Denali: Alaska Adventures with Horses and Huskies

2 reviews
Miki Collins, Julie Collins-Rousseau

Epicenter Press, 1998

Alaska wild and pure!
I read Miki Collins' Riding the Wild Side of Denali in one sitting on a cold November Yukon morning and dreamt about it for many days to follow. If you'd like to taste real adventure and feel the cold crispness of life on the Alaskan trail, grab this one! Here, Miki relates the empassioned tales, sometimes hair-raising, sometimes hilarious, that she shares with her twin sister Julie as they ...

Moose Dropping & Other Crimes Against Nature

2 reviews
Tom Brennan

Epicenter Press, 2000

The Funny Truth About Alaskans
This book is full of very funny stories about Alaska and the people who live there. This is the kind of book that you can just pick up flip to any page and read something that will make you laugh. This is a must buy book for anyone who is interested in the lighter side of life. Anyone who reads this will laugh, you don't have to live in Alaska to get the jokes. This book is for everyone.

The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley

1 review
Barbara Washburn, Bradford Washburn

Epicenter Press, 2001

Well titled book....
Accidental Adventurer by Barbara Washburn proves to be a well written autobiography. Her husband was late Bradford Washburn, a man of science as well as a explorer. Her book reflects her quiet lifestyle until she married this man and how that marriage totally transformed her, almost by accident, into a world wide adventurer, traveling with her husband from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the ...

Alaska Women Write: Living, Loving and Laughing on the Last Frontier

2 reviews

Epicenter Press, 2003

A Must-Read!
For anyone curious about the mystique of Alaska, this is a must-read. If you can't make a trip to Alaska, this is the next best thing. Not only for women, anyone will enjoy this book.

Beyond the Killing Tree: A Journey of Discovery

2 reviews
Stephen Reynolds

Epicenter Press, 1995

Memoir of a Game Warden in New Mexico and Alaska
In a refreshingly original western voice, Stephen Reynolds tells his life story. As a game warden, he explores the wonders of wild, untamed places such as the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, and the Brooks Range and Yukon Delta of Alaska. He meets people who use the land to live and people who live to abuse it. His is the heritage of a boy raised as a hunter, drawn to the excitement of the kill, ...

Jon Van Zyle's Iditarod Memories: 25 Years of Poster Art from the Last Great Race

2 reviews
Jona Van Zyle

Epicenter Press, 2008

For anyone who has ever thrilled to an Iditarod event
Jon Van Zyle's Iditarod Memories, Alaskan artist Jon Van Zyle has captured the twenty-five years of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race year by year with his commemorative posters celebrating the triumph, heroes, historic tales, and spirit of this classic dog sledding event. With true-life Iditarod stories by Jona Van Zyle, this 64-page book is a fitting memorial testament and celebration of human ...

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