By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a "tough...
Alaska
- Auteur:Braverman, BlairSommaire:
- Auteur:Peterson, TracieSommaire:
Award-winning author of more than 70 best-selling books, Tracie Peterson crafts an inspiring story of Arctic adventure and selfless love. Set amidst the savage beauty of 1915 Alaska, Under the Northern Lights is a compelling tale of...
- Auteur:Peterson, TracieSommaire:
Tayler Hale is ahead of her time as one of the first women naturalists. She has always loved adventure and the great outdoors, and her remote job location also helps keep her away from the clutches of the man to whom she once made a...
- Auteur:Wallis, VelmaSommaire:
The story of the survival of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe in the Arctic.
- Auteur:Adams, MarkSommaire:
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journey into Alaska, America's last frontier, retracing the historic 1899 Harriman Expedition. In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman...
- Auteur:HANCOCK, LynSommaire:
An account of the author's experiences accompanying her husband who was filming the relocation of a colony of sea otters from Canada to Alaska during the summer of 1970. Adventures with wildlife in British Columbia, Alaska, and the...
- Auteur:Van Hemert, CarolineSommaire:
Biologist Caroline Van Hemert tells the story of her journey from Washington state to high above the Arctic Circle--traveling across remote and rugged terrain solely by human power--to rediscover birds, the natural world, and her own...
- Auteur:Lawrence, IainSommaire:
Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank...
- Auteur:Straley, JohnSommaire:
When Louise Root, a new client of Cecil Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of an environmental law violation that has deadly repercussions. Cecil finds he is unable to leave behind Root,...
- Auteur:McGrath, M. J.Sommaire:
Half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk is in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband in his bid to win the Iditarod. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a baby in the forest. The ensuing investigation...
- Auteur:Stabenow, DanaSommaire:
Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell--the heroes of "New York Times" bestseller Stabenow's most beloved series--team up for the first time ever when Liam needs Kate's help to...
- Auteur:Dailey, JanetSommaire:
Refuge Cove, Alaska, stays true to its name when a woman who has lost hope and a man in need of healing come to each other's rescue. She'd come to Alaska on the promise of marriage, only to find herself on the run from her...
- Auteur:Peterson, TracieSommaire:
Katherine and Jean-Michel once shared a deep love that was torn apart by forces beyond their control. Reunited in the 1920s at the Curry Hotel in Alaska, have the years changed them too deeply to rediscover what they had' And when Jean-...
- Auteur:Proenneke, RichardSommaire:
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man; to roam the wilderness through which few other humans have passed; to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log cabin; to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from...
- Auteur:Peterson, TracieSommaire:
Dalton Lindquist is forced to make difficult choices about the future when dark family secrets threaten the tranquility of his life, and to complicate matters, Dalton and his best friend, Yuri, seek the attention of the same woman,...
- Auteur:Hobbs, WillSommaire:
Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie...
- Auteur:West, MiaSommaire:
Bush pilot John Tillman never expected to raise his kid sister. As her graduation approaches, he can almost taste the freedom of the empty nest in his near future—to fly in his eagle form for days…walk around his house naked…maybe even...
- Auteur:Bown, Stephen R.Sommaire:
The immense eighteenth-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and...
- Auteur:Krakauer, JonSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Moderow, Debbie ClarkeSommaire:
At age forty-seven, a mother of two, Debbie Moderow was not your average musher in the Iditarod, but that's where she found herself when, less than 200 miles from the finish line, her dogs decided they didn't want to run...