Book review: “Stronghold” is thestory of one man, Guido Rahr, responsible for initiating and advancing the stronghold concept in the North Pacific, particularly on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
From poetry to fiction and true crime, these are the books that left the deepest impressions on ADN reviewers David James and Nancy Lord this year.
Book review: Bradfield challenges not just the traditions of travel writing and our ideas of the place we know as Antarctica, but the forms and uses of poetry.
Book review: “A Wilder Time” is largely about the process of science — how it is to have a theory and proceed to test it, how science is always questioning, always re-evaluating and revising what we know about life.
Book review: Several Alaskan writers contributed to “For Love of Orcas," an anthology sparked by the story of an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days around Puget Sound.
Book review: In “Surfacing,” Kathleen Jamie, a poet and nonfiction writer from Scotland, follows her fascination with archaeology and cultural histories to various sites around the world.
Surely there’s room in your printed pages for this very significant contribution to our public discourse.
Bathsheba Demuth’s book is touted as the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the lands and waters in and around the Bering Strait in both Alaska and Russia.
Book review: Tom Walker’s “Wild Shots” is an examination of a life that reveres other life, studies it in often uncomfortable circumstances, and achieves a blissful satisfaction with a realized image.
Book review: A beautifully arranged collection, with a stunning cover by Fairbanks artist David Mollett, gives fans a retrospective of Morgan’s early work while serving as an introduction to new readers.
Book review: “Warrior’s Creed” is the story of how elite Reconnaissance Marine and Air Force pararescuer Roger Sparks trained and served, backed with the philosophy that has guided his beliefs and actions.
Bill Streever, the Anchorage-based writer best known for “Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places,” sets out to tackle “humanity’s presence beneath the waves.”
