alaska

A survival tale of three teenage cousins and their harrowing escape from a national park filled with grizzly bears.

Photographs and text chronicle the history of the 1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome, from its pioneer origins and first Native and rural mushers, to the rise of early champions and the record-breakers of modern times.

Presents a memoir in which James Huntington shares the story of his life in Alaska, telling how he was left to care for his brother and sister after his mother's death when he was just seven, and discussing his experiences living in the wilderness as a hunter, trapper, and dog sled racer.

The author chronicles his experiences living in the wilderness of Alaska and recounts his day-to-day activities of building a log cabin and making what he needed from materials around him.

"The Iditarod is a dog-sled race that is held in Alaska every year. This book is the story of how Libby Riddles worked hard to become the first woman ever to win the race.".

Lovel shared her personal experiences while homesteading in Alaska during the 1960's.

Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all lives but one---a city kid from Philadelphia with no wilderness experience. With only a parachute for cover and an old Boy Scout knife in his pocket, he found himself alone in subzero temperatures.