Alaska Northwest Books imprint: 77 books
Alaska's Wolf Man
The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Between 1915 and 1955 adventure-seeking Frank Glaser, a latter-day Far North Mountain Man, trekked across wilderness Alaska on foot, by wolf-dog team, and eventually, by airplane. In his career he was a market hunter, trapper, roadhouse owner, professional dog team musher, and a federal predator control...
On Patrol
True Adventures of an Alaska Game Warden
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Take to the air with veteran bush pilot and game warden Ray Tremblay in these lively adventure stories of Alaska’s early game-law enforcement. During a career spanning nearly thirty years, Tremblay earned the respect of his fellow pilots and game cops, as well as biologists, trappers, hunters, and...
Never Cry Halibut
and Other Alaska Hunting and Fishing Tales
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage,Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and fishing in Alaska.
Accompanied by photographs, each story reflects the author's three-decade relationship with the wildest places left in North America...
Haunted Inside Passage
Ghosts, Legends, and Mysteries of Southeast Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A collection of twenty stories showcasing the supernatural legends and unsolved mysteries of Southeast Alaska, with a focus on the region between Yakutat and Petersburg, where the author has lived his entire life, writing, teaching, guiding, commercial fishing, and investigating ghost stories. Each...
The Tutka Bay Lodge Cookbook
Coastal Cuisine from the Wilds of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In personal stories, evocative photographs, and recipes that are purposefully simple and designed for the home cook, Chef Kirsten Dixon and her family share fresh, rustic cuisine offering friendship, communicating passion, and bringing comfort and delight to the table.
This recipe collection...
by Susan Woodward Springer
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Youngsters will love reading about the misadventures of Sam, a fictitious eight-year-old boy from Seldovia, Alaska, who slips in and out of trouble--but always learns something in the process. In book one, Sam wants to find the biggest clam ever. He's digging so hard that he doesn't notice when the...
Fishing Up North
Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This new edition contains new stories and updates from the super heated days when fishing fleets turned king crab into fortunes, to the annual circus of Bristol Bay's monster salmon runs, to the bucolic life of the open ocean trawler, the true stories in Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss...
A Place Beyond
Finding Home in Arctic Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Nick Jans leads us into his "found" home—the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure—camping among the wolves, traveling with Inupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at...
Racing Toward Recovery
The Extraordinary Story of Alaska Musher Mike Williams Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
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In the Shadow of Eagles
From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot, A Flyer's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In the Shadow of Eagles is a uniquely American saga. Rudy Billberg’s story takes readers through the great age of aviation, from his first airplane ride in Minnesota in 1927 to his bush flying career in Alaska beginning in 1941. One of the authentic aviation pioneers, Billberg writes of his countless...
The Last Light Breaking
Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people—the Inupiat Natives, an ancient culture...
by Jamie S. Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
17 year-old Mickey Church, a Tlingit Indian didn’t see anything special about his hometown. Perched on an island in Southeast Alaska, the small town of Wrangell was shabby, wet, and isolated. Mickey spent his time acting out, lighting up, and practicing his unstudied air of casual defiance. But...
A Tender Distance
Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This is a mother's story about raising her two boys in Alaska were wilderness is just out the back door of their home. Written with wit, wisdom, and a grateful heart, A Tender Distance presents fifteen finely-crafted vignettes that explore the perils and joys of raising two fearless boys from toddlerhood...
Potlatch
Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages. In celebrations that often last many days, sumptuous meals are served; legends about clans and ancestors are sung and enacted...