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Author
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod-the eleven hundred and eighty mile sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness-in dangerous ignorance and with a fierce determination. For seventeen days, he and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, hallucinations-and the relentless push to go on. Winterdance is the enthralling account of a "stunning wilderness...
6) Dear Cora
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory memoir of the author's efforts to develop the strength and resilience to survive in the demanding landscapes of Norway and Alaska describes her physically exhausting survival endeavors on a ruthless arctic tundra marked by violent natural and human threats. 30,000 first printing,"--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air, and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery, people can vanish without a trace and funerals are a community affair. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for her local newspaper. If anyone knows the going-on in this close-knit town-from births to weddings to funerals, she does.
Whether contemplating...
10) The wild truth
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, as told by his beloved and trusted sister.
"The ... story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just ... Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the author's hunger for remote, wild places, which take her across America and then to Alaska, where she finds her true home in its vast and rugged landscape. She and her husband build a log cabin miles from the nearest road; after tragic loss, Keith and her infant daughter must push on alone in the Alaskan backcountry. Long-distance dog sledding opens a door to a new existence. Racing across Alaska offers the best of all worlds...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale and the antiestablishment family settlement in remote Alaska that was exposed as a cult-like prison where Hale brutalized and isolated his wife and fifteen children.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
413 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnancy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. [This book tells the] story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable, awe-inspiring...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The chronicle of a family's first year alone in Alaskan wilderness, Arctic Son is a poetic journey of discovery into is valued in life. In 1992, Jean Aspen and her husband, Tom, left Arizona and took their young son to live in Alaska's interior wilderness, building a cabin out of logs, hunting for food, and letting the vast, harsh beauty of the Arctic close in around them. While Jean had faced Alaska's wilderness before (in a life altering experience...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st hardback ed.
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Setting off in an overloaded canoe, they journeyed down the Yukon River and walked upstream into the remote Brooks Range to build a cabin and live off the land. She was twenty-two, daughter of a famous woman adventurer. He was her childhood sweetheart. Four years later, they emerged from the Alaskan wilds. Now in her sixties, Jean Aspen updates her spellbinding tale of adventure in a harsh and beautiful land for a new generation. ARCTIC DAUGHTER is...
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sam Keith followed his dream to Alaska where he met Dick Proenneke. He was searching for adventure and acceptance, and found it hunting and fishing with Dick and other colorful characters who shared a love of outdoors, hard work, and self-reliance. His experiences--harrowing, funny, fascinating--are detailed in this memoir"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Description
"Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-and wins. But tiny Haines--a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane--isn't the sleepy town it appears to be. From a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears from rifling through garbage to the recall campaign...
19) Road song
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1969, Natalie Kusz and her family abandoned the city, packed up the car, and headed to Alaska. They ended up a hundred miles from Fairbanks in a dilapidated house surrounded by 258 acres of spruce, birch, and willow, and no road. When the first winter came, with Mr. Kusz working in Prudhoe Bay, money running out, and temperatures 60 below, the Kusz family was living so close to disaster that the question was not when it would strike but whom.