Alaska Northwest Books imprint: 77 books
Running with Champions
A Midlife Journey on the Iditarod Trail
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
?Lisa Frederic was just your average Alaska fisherwoman when a vacation in Nome to see the burled-arch finish of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race changed her life forever. The mushers’ devotion to their dogs and the sheer grit required to complete the epic race lit a spark in Lisa. She started as...
Arctic Son
Fulfilling the Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The chronicle of a family's first year alone in Alaskan wilderness, here is a poetic exploration into what we value in life.
In 1992 Jean Aspen took her husband, Tom, and their young son to live in Alaska's interior mountains where they built a cabin from logs, hunted for food, and let the...
Johnny's Girl
A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up In Alaska's Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after‑hours hell of pimps and con men. Kim Rich longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow...
Life with Forty Dogs
Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Dog lovers everywhere will relate to this author’s stories, from heart-wrenching to hilarious.
Author and his wife are known and respected for their extremely compassionate dog handling.
Author advocates rescue and “Rogues Gallery Kennel” is made up of beloved “rescues, runts,...
by Susan Woodward Springer
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
All four books of Seldovia Sam's exciting misadventures are now collected in one book!
Eight-year-old Sam Peterson from Seldovia, Alaska, doesn't go looking for trouble, but he always seems to find it! This book collects the entire series of Seldovia Sam's exploits, from digging up clams and rescuing sea otters to encountering wildfires and meeting bears.
Heroes and Heroines
Tlingit-Haida Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Over uncounted generations the Tlingits and Haidas of Southeast Alaska developed a spoken literature as robust and distinctive as their unique graphic art style, and passed it from the old to the young to ensure the continuity of their culture. Even today when the people gather, now under lamplight...
Alone Across the Arctic
One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Eight sled dogs and one woman set out from Barrow, Alaska, to mush 2,500 miles. ALONE ACROSS THE ARCTIC chronicles this astounding expedition. For an entire year, Pam Flowers and her dogs made this epic journey across North America arctic coast. The first woman to make this trip solo, Pam endures...
by Olaus J. Murie
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Advertising: Targeted PNBA holiday catalog ad, Ingram e-comm to libraries and bookstores.
Awards: Submitted for National Outdoor Book Award, PNBA Award, Sigurd Olsen Award.
Events: Targeted events at the Murie Center and in California.
Materials: Murie information and related titles flyer.
Online: Dedicated...
Shamans and Kushtakas
North Coast Tales of the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Shaman and Kushtaka, both struck terror in the hearts of the Tlingit and Haida, for both possessed frightening supernatural powers. Among the Natives of the Pacific Northwest Coast, the shaman was honored as a person who could heal the body and spirit as well as see into the future. In his struggles...
Beyond Road's End
Living Free in Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The book chronicles the adventures of Ed and Janice Schofield including building their own home, learning about the wild plants, the people and the wildlife of the area. Short episodic chapters keep readers turning the pages full of "can-do spirit" and live in the last frontier. Part love story, part adventure, and part natural history, this is a chaming memoir.
Thunder on the Tundra
Football Above the Arctic Circle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team. Against long odds the Whalers had to practice and play in extreme conditions and travel hundreds of miles from home when they went on the "road," flying for each game.They...
Lowell Thomas Jr.
Flight to Adventure, Alaska and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Lowell Thomas Jr. is a famed Alaskan who made his mark as a Bush pilot and by serving in state government, but who also has had a lifetime’s worth of adventures that have taken him around the world. Thomas, now eighty?nine, and living in Anchorage, is the son of one of the most widely known Americans...
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back
The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course...
by Tricia Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Charlie loves to watch his relatives and friends get thrown high in the air during the traditional Inupiat blanket toss. But secretly, he's afraid to try it himself. At the Whaling Festival, he's ready to step up and overcome his fears. Warm humor and good energy fill the pages in this inspiring story...