alaska

Young readers can follow a boy and his sister as they travel across the Alaskan snow in their dog sled.

Contains the photographic chronicles of two quests--that of Norman Vaughan, a member of the 1928 Byrd expedition to the South Pole who returned at the age of eighty-nine to scale the peak named in his honor; and that of twelve-year-old Merrick Johnston, the youngest person to reach the summit of Mt. McKinley.

Jack London's classic tale of adventrue. Buck, a gentle and beautiful dog, is stolen from his owners in the United States and forced into a wilderness life of survival as a gold-rush sled dog in the frozen Yukon. He is purchased for a lead position by John Thornton and their trials bring a relationship of love and devotion.

Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend's winter trapping camp.

In northern Alaska an Eskimo girl is transformed into a caribou and travels with the herd in order to save her human family from starvation.

Presents two classics by Jack London, including "The Call of the Wild" in which a dog in the Klondike reverts to wilderness life and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves; and "White Fang" in which a wolf-dog trained to be a vicious fighter struggles to live in both the world of dogs and that of humans.

In 1970, a group of California hippies migrates to Alaska when the law begins to cramp their style, but soon their new home's harsh environment cramps it even more.

A warm, dramatic story of a friendship between a boy and a bear in the Alaskan frontier. More than a fine animal story, a vivid chronicle of Alaska, its people and places, challenges and beauties.

Part-time private investigator Kate Shugak helps her boyfriend, state trooper Jim Chopin, investigate two deaths connected to the mining of gold in an Alaskan national park.