Book review: “Arctic: Culture and Climate” should have been a vehicle to provide people struggling to be heard a chance to present their stories to a broader public. Instead they’re still getting filtered through a museum.
Book review: Clearly “Alaska’s Deadly Dozen” could have easily expanded beyond a dozen cases. The ones author Tom Brennan does include border on incredulous but absolutely happened.
Hendrik accompanied four expeditions and emerged as the hero of the Polaris Expedition, when his and another Inuit man’s efforts prevented many deaths. After his journeys, he wrote this book.
“A Most Wicked Conspiracy” describes the last sputtering days of the American Frontier (still clinging to its last stand in Alaska) colliding with the twilight of the Gilded Age.
Book review: Three narratives overlap as Talkeetna author Sarah Birdsall explores the fragile relationships in a small town where everyone seeks to escape their demons while completely enmeshed in them.
Book review: At age 11, Elisabeth’s twin sister walked away from home, saying she would return soon. She never did, and that mystery drives the plot of Raymond Fleischmann’s riveting debut novel.
Book review: Barrie Gilbert’s nearly fatal mauling is described in a few pages of “One of Us,” but his primary objective is to talk bears, with personal observations, hard science and a call for more study of the causes of bear behavior.
From apocalyptic young adult fiction to memoirs and a cookbook, these are the works that stood out in an unusual year.
Book review: Laura Waterman finds her way into the thinking of the explorers to discern where the point of no return lies, the moment when living men are willing to eat their dead compatriots in a final desperate attempt at staving off their own deaths.
Book review: Whether the reader has never visited a glacier or has devoted their life to exploring them, they will find new perspectives and appreciations for these behemoth rivers of ice in this book.
Book review: Reissued with an afterword by UAF English professor Eric Heyne, “Burning Daylight” was Jack London’s final novel to incorporate Alaska and the Klondike into its settings.
Book review: “Without a Paddle” touches on topics ranging from the Civil War to the backwoods of Alaska to the travails of social media. These poems are brief, yet each tells a story.
