Alumni Travel Reading Lists 2020: Discover Southeast Alaska

Gordon Haber's field notes, extensive journals, and stories from friends all come together in this book to reveal much about both the wolves he studied and the researcher himself.

Contains information on the natural history of transient killer whales, including their feeding habits, social lives, and distribution patterns. The catalogue section contains photographs of and notes on over 200 individual whales. (A print copy is also available via the University of Washington Press).

Assesses Alaskan wolf and bear management programs from scientific and economic perspectives. The assessment includes a review of current scientific knowledge about the dynamics and management of large mammalian predator-prey relationships. More on wolf management in Alaska.

Elizabeth B. Pinson shares memories of Alaska's emergence into a new and modern era, bearing witness to history in the early twentieth century as she recalls it.

An oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman.

Memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. Her journey is exhilarating--but not without reminders of the folly of romanticizing a northern landscape that both rejects and beguiles.

A collection of oral and written narratives providing insight into life in northern Alaska.

A comprehensive survey of the history of Alaska's peoples and the development of its economy. Nakse and Slotnick provide a full chronological survey of the region's and state's history.

A visual adventure through the paintings and color photographs of Julia Tinker.

Drawing on interviews and government records, as well as the totem poles themselves, this book shows how Tlingit and Haida leaders were able to channel the New Deal promotion of Native art as national art into an assertion of their cultural and political rights.

Using photographer, Shoki Kayamori's original photos, Thomas explores the economic and political realities that sent Kayamori and thousands like him out of Japan toward opportunity and adventure in the Pacific Northwest.

An atmospheric tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child--finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

An Athabascan Indian of Alaska's Yukon flats, author Velma Wallis retells the legend wherein two old women are abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine and must survive on their own or die trying.

Depicts the life of a white boy raised by the Inuits on the Alaskan tundra.

Field guide to Southeast Alaska's natural wonders.The most recent edition is from Alaska Northwest Books: 3rd, Revised edition. published, March 3, 2014.

Examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years

A blend of environmental theory and literary studies, this book looks at and beyound the myth of Alaska as America's "last frontier."

Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors.

Celebrates the art of Alaska's Native peoples, both setting their work in the context of historical traditions and demonstrating the role it continues to play in contemporary Alaskan culture.

Features more than 200 objects representing the masterful artistry and design traditions of twenty Alaska Native peoples.