Book review: George Harbeson Jr.'s roots in Alaska are deep, and the stories in this slightly uneven but mostly quite good collection often hark back to an Alaska that’s slipped away in the age of the internet.
Book review: With its flying machines, newfangled radios, grubby mechanics and Arctic backdrop, this would be a great steampunk novel — were it not an entirely factual account of journalist-celebrity Walter Wellman.
Book review: “American Predator” isn’t easy reading. But by drawing from documents, court records, and interviews, Maureen Callahan produced a superb work of true crime writing.
Monica Devine, who lives in Eagle River, turns to memoir writing, sifting through the back pages of her life for stories and reflecting them outward onto Alaska and the world.
For Franklin Expedition fanatics, Russell Potter is a household name. He’ll be one of the speakers at a symposium held Saturday, just before the final week of “Death in the Ice,” a major exhibit that has been at the museum all summer.
Book review: Author, television host and all-around polymath Michael Palin has turned his attention to the story of the lead ship, turning out one of the most enjoyably readable books about 19th century British maritime excursions and the Royal Navy’s most famous nonmilitary failure to be had.
Book review: Wolf D. Storl’s book “Bear: Myth, Animal, Icon” takes bears out of the scientific and ecological realms, and places them squarely in the boundless worlds of human imagination.
Book review: “The Tanana Chiefs” shows how the history of Alaska Native political struggles rests solidly on the foundation set by a meeting of Tanana River Athabascan tribal leaders with federal government officials in 1915.
Book review: Drawing on history, mythology, science, spiritualism and an abundance of historic illustrations and maps, author Michael Bravo approaches the Pole from multiple directions, discovering new meanings and opening new possibilities.
Book review: John Bockstoce’s “White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic” examines the crucial period when the North American Arctic was fully swept into the modern world.
These books are a great way to introduce children in Alaska and beyond to our state and its many cultures and wonders.
Book review: 1909 was a climactic year for great accomplishments at the global extremes, historian Edward J. Larson tells us in his history of that year’s events.
