Coming
into the Country - An unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It
is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive
narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total
wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.
Going
to Extremes - A firsthand account capturing the feel of Alaska on the brink
of an oil-boom explosion, which gets to the heart of real Alaskans and their
stories.
Into
the Wild - In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked
to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name
was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity,
abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet,
and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body
was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable
story of Into the Wild.
Tisha:
The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness - Anne Hobbs is a
prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds
this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep
in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community
flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with many of the townspeople,
but is soon ostracized when she not only befriends the local Indians but also
falls in love with one.
Wager
With the Wind : The Don Sheldon Story - Don Sheldon has been called 'Alaska's
bush pilot among bush pilots', but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane
who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-risk
landing to the rescue of others from certain death in the mountains of Alaska
or the routine delivery of supplies to a lonely homesteader. Read this book
to learn how a hero was born, and also how he made his courageous journey to
the unknown skies of dealing with cancer.
