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Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 •  Libby Beaman •  Betty John
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1998 • PAPER • 206 PAGES • FAVORITE
The engrossing memoir of an American woman who accompanied her husband to Alaska's Pribilof Islands in 1879, just after American acquisition of the region. Libby was the first non-native woman to live on St. Paul, which lies just south of the Arctic Circle in the Bering Sea. As edited by Libby's granddaughter, the book is a plainly told and wonderfully evocative tale of a pioneering life in remote Alaska -- with much attention paid to the natural history of the Pribilof Islands. From her storm-bound arrival at St. Paul to her reception by the local population to her near-death of cold and malnutrition, it's a great story. (ARC07, $16.95)

Where the Sea Breaks its Back •  Corey Ford
EXPLORATION • 1992 • PAPER • 206 PAGES
A gripping tale of naturalist Georg Steller and Bering's Second Expedition in 1741. Chronicling one of the great stories of exploration, Ford paints a vivid portrait of Steller and his first encounter with the wildlife of the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Alaskan coast. A classic, first published in 1966, it's subtitled "The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska." (ALA07, $14.95)

The Forgotten War, A Pictorial History of World War II in Alaska and Northwestern Canada, Vol. 2 •  Stan B. Cohen
HISTORY • 1993 • PAPER • 264 PAGES
A concise, illustrated history of Alaska during World War II, with much of the action taking place on the Aleutian Islands. (ALA150, $14.95)

Working on the Edge, Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession •  Spike Walker
HISTORY • 2003 • PAPER • 280 PAGES
Enthralling, if not somewhat pulpy, these true-life tales of crab fishing expeditions off the coast of Alaska capture all the danger and adrenaline that go with making a living at sea. For authenticity's sake, the author served as a crewman on numerous boats and saw first-hand the risks -- and the money -- involved in Alaska's commercial fishing industry. (ALA158, $15.95)

Marine Mammals of Alaska •  Kate Wynne
FIELD GUIDE • 2007 • FLEXI-BOUND • 75 PAGES
A sturdy, spiral-bound field guide with range maps, color plates and brief text, including an introduction to whales and seals. Designed for use in the field, the book features large color photographs, profiles and helpful drawings. Carry it with you on deck. Third edition. (ALA08, $25.00)

Alaska Map •   ITMB
2004 • MAP
A map of Alaska on two sides, featuring the Aleutians, the Bering Strait, and much of neighboring Siberia, at a scale of 1:2,500,000. (ALA31, $8.95)

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North Circumpolar Region •   Canada Map Office • A bird's-eye view of the Arctic Ocean and all the lands of the far north, at a scale of 1:10,000,000. (ARC16, $19.95)

Antler on the Sea, the Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East •  Anna Kerttula • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of the daily life, culture and economy of a typical village along the Chukotka Peninsula, written by an anthropologist who lived there for 18 months. (RUS100, $22.95)

Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North •  Yuri Sleskine • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A fascinating overview of the 26 ethnic groups found in the Russian North, including Lapps, Eskimos, Aleuts, Uralic and Turkic nomads. (ARC22, $24.95)

Bering, The Russian Discovery of America •  Orcutt Frost • HISTORY • The first modern biography of the great explorer -- and an excellent account of still little-known regions of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East. The author draws on new evidence to reinvigorate the life and adventures of the seafaring Dane. (SIB33, $35.00)

Drawing Shadows to Stone •  Laurel Kendall • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • Featuring 83 photographs, this book is a record of the 1897 American Museum of Natural History expedition to Alaska and Siberia under Franz Boas. It illuminates the anthropology of peoples on both sides of Bering Strait. (ARC34, $22.50)

Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community •  Carol Zane Jolles • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An overview of the people of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. (ALA182, $24.95)

Looking Both Ways, Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People •  Aaron Cromwell •  Amy Steffian •  George Pullar • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A marvelously illustrated, absorbing introduction to the coastal people of the Kodiak archipelago and South-central Alaska, covering history, art and contemporary culture. (ALA180, $24.95)

Natives of the Far North, Alaska's Vanishing Culture in the Eye of Edward Sheriff Curtis •  Shannon Lowry •  Edward S. Curtis • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of black-and-white photographs and stories collected by Curtis. A member of the 1899 Harriman Expedition, he went on to spend 30 years among the Aleut and other peoples of the Bering Strait. (ALA145, $29.95)

The Russian Far East, A History •  John J. Stephan • HISTORY • The first history of Russia's least-known region in any language, this comprehensive book is a readable, scholarly history of the Russian Far East from prehistory to the break-up of the Soviet Union. (RUS34, $31.95)

The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia •  Anna Reid • HISTORY • Reid interviewed hunters, reindeer herders, storytellers and dozens of other original inhabitants across Siberia for this eye-opening book. With chapters on the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, Ainu and Chukchi people. (SIB28, $13.00)

The Thousand-Mile War, World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians •  Brian Garfield • HISTORY • A gripping account of the Aleutian Island campaign (1942-43), originally published in 1969. Many of the islands, depicted in black-and-white photographs, are littered with WWII era runways, huts and other relics. (ALA114, $24.95)

Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum •  Aldona Jonaitis • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A lively, illusrtated presentration of 138 highlights of the Museum, including artefacts, craft and paintings. (ALA151, $35.00)

Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892- 1902 •  Kathleen Lopp Smith •  Verbeck Smith • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A chronicle of daily life, customs and struggles on the Bering Strait at the turn of the century. With 350 letters, more than 90 period photographs, maps, drawings from the letters, and reproductions of the five issues of "The Eskimo Bulletin." (ALA152, $45.00)

Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 •  Georg Wilhelm Steller •  O. W. Frost • EXPLORATION • The original account of the European discovery of Alaska, including a vivid description of the harrowing return voyage. (RUS63, $23.95)

North to the Orient •  Anne Morrow Lindbergh • EXPLORATION • A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze. (ARC36, $12.00)

The Cruise of the Corwin •  John Muir •  William Frederic Bade • EXPLORATION • An account of an 1881 voyage with Muir and others in search of the Jeanette Expedition, this book is also an eyewitness report of little-known lands including the Chukchi Peninsula, Diomede, Wrangel and Herald islands. (ALA76, $16.95)

Two in the Far North •  Margaret Murie •  Olaus Murie • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE • Murie's field biologist husband supplies not only fodder for the stories, but also the illustrations for this tale of life on the Alaskan frontier. (ALA57, $16.95)

A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic •  E.C. Pielou • NATURAL HISTORY • Our best-selling book on the Arctic, this guide covers the geography and climate, plants, birds and wildlife of the circumpolar north. (ARC03, $22.00)

Bear Attacks, Their Causes and Avoidance •  Stephen Herrero • NATURAL HISTORY • Despite its frightening title, this book is a helpful introduction to the natural history and behavior of the bear by a long-term researcher in the field. With useful tips on "avoidance." (BST21, $16.95)

Glacier Ice •  Austin Post •  Edward R. LaChapelle • NATURAL HISTORY • A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. The text is by Ed LaChapelle, an avalanche researcher, glaciologist, mountaineer, skier, author and professor, who died in 2007 at 80 of a heart attack while on the slopes in Colorado. Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers along the North Pacific Coast of North America and into the interior ranges of Alaska is supplemented with groundbased photographs from the Himalayas, Switzerland, Chile, and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)

Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth •  Maurice Krafft • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America •   National Geographic • FIELD GUIDE • From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)

Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide •  Peter Harrison • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • A definitive, compact guide to all the world's seabirds, featuring 740 photographs. (FG16, $29.95)

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	Libby: The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 • Libby Beaman • Betty John BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 1998 • PAPER • 206 PAGES • FAVORITE The engrossing memoir of an American woman who accompanied her husband to Alaska's Pribilof Islands in 1879, just after American acquisition of the region. Libby was the first non-native woman to live on St. Paul, which lies just south of the Arctic Circle in the Bering Sea. As edited by Libby's granddaughter, the book is a plainly told and wonderfully evocative tale of a pioneering life in remote Alaska -- with much attention paid to the natural history of the Pribilof Islands. From her storm-bound arrival at St. Paul to her reception by the local population to her near-death of cold and malnutrition, it's a great story. (ARC07, $16.95)
	Where the Sea Breaks its Back • Corey Ford EXPLORATION • 1992 • PAPER • 206 PAGES A gripping tale of naturalist Georg Steller and Bering's Second Expedition in 1741. Chronicling one of the great stories of exploration, Ford paints a vivid portrait of Steller and his first encounter with the wildlife of the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Alaskan coast. A classic, first published in 1966, it's subtitled "The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska." (ALA07, $14.95)
	The Forgotten War, A Pictorial History of World War II in Alaska and Northwestern Canada, Vol. 2 • Stan B. Cohen HISTORY • 1993 • PAPER • 264 PAGES A concise, illustrated history of Alaska during World War II, with much of the action taking place on the Aleutian Islands. (ALA150, $14.95)
	Working on the Edge, Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession • Spike Walker HISTORY • 2003 • PAPER • 280 PAGES Enthralling, if not somewhat pulpy, these true-life tales of crab fishing expeditions off the coast of Alaska capture all the danger and adrenaline that go with making a living at sea. For authenticity's sake, the author served as a crewman on numerous boats and saw first-hand the risks -- and the money -- involved in Alaska's commercial fishing industry. (ALA158, $15.95)
	Marine Mammals of Alaska • Kate Wynne FIELD GUIDE • 2007 • FLEXI-BOUND • 75 PAGES A sturdy, spiral-bound field guide with range maps, color plates and brief text, including an introduction to whales and seals. Designed for use in the field, the book features large color photographs, profiles and helpful drawings. Carry it with you on deck. Third edition. (ALA08, $25.00)
	Alaska Map • ITMB 2004 • MAP A map of Alaska on two sides, featuring the Aleutians, the Bering Strait, and much of neighboring Siberia, at a scale of 1:2,500,000. (ALA31, $8.95)

	North Circumpolar Region • Canada Map Office • A bird's-eye view of the Arctic Ocean and all the lands of the far north, at a scale of 1:10,000,000. (ARC16, $19.95)
	Antler on the Sea, the Yup'ik and Chukchi of the Russian Far East • Anna Kerttula • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of the daily life, culture and economy of a typical village along the Chukotka Peninsula, written by an anthropologist who lived there for 18 months. (RUS100, $22.95)
	Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North • Yuri Sleskine • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A fascinating overview of the 26 ethnic groups found in the Russian North, including Lapps, Eskimos, Aleuts, Uralic and Turkic nomads. (ARC22, $24.95)
	Bering, The Russian Discovery of America • Orcutt Frost • HISTORY • The first modern biography of the great explorer -- and an excellent account of still little-known regions of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East. The author draws on new evidence to reinvigorate the life and adventures of the seafaring Dane. (SIB33, $35.00)
	Drawing Shadows to Stone • Laurel Kendall • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • Featuring 83 photographs, this book is a record of the 1897 American Museum of Natural History expedition to Alaska and Siberia under Franz Boas. It illuminates the anthropology of peoples on both sides of Bering Strait. (ARC34, $22.50)
	Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community • Carol Zane Jolles • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An overview of the people of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. (ALA182, $24.95)
	Looking Both Ways, Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People • Aaron Cromwell • Amy Steffian • George Pullar • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A marvelously illustrated, absorbing introduction to the coastal people of the Kodiak archipelago and South-central Alaska, covering history, art and contemporary culture. (ALA180, $24.95)
	Natives of the Far North, Alaska's Vanishing Culture in the Eye of Edward Sheriff Curtis • Shannon Lowry • Edward S. Curtis • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A collection of black-and-white photographs and stories collected by Curtis. A member of the 1899 Harriman Expedition, he went on to spend 30 years among the Aleut and other peoples of the Bering Strait. (ALA145, $29.95)
	The Russian Far East, A History • John J. Stephan • HISTORY • The first history of Russia's least-known region in any language, this comprehensive book is a readable, scholarly history of the Russian Far East from prehistory to the break-up of the Soviet Union. (RUS34, $31.95)
	The Shaman's Coat, A Native History of Siberia • Anna Reid • HISTORY • Reid interviewed hunters, reindeer herders, storytellers and dozens of other original inhabitants across Siberia for this eye-opening book. With chapters on the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Sakha, Ainu and Chukchi people. (SIB28, $13.00)
	The Thousand-Mile War, World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians • Brian Garfield • HISTORY • A gripping account of the Aleutian Island campaign (1942-43), originally published in 1969. Many of the islands, depicted in black-and-white photographs, are littered with WWII era runways, huts and other relics. (ALA114, $24.95)
	Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum • Aldona Jonaitis • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A lively, illusrtated presentration of 138 highlights of the Museum, including artefacts, craft and paintings. (ALA151, $35.00)
	Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village, 1892- 1902 • Kathleen Lopp Smith • Verbeck Smith • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A chronicle of daily life, customs and struggles on the Bering Strait at the turn of the century. With 350 letters, more than 90 period photographs, maps, drawings from the letters, and reproductions of the five issues of "The Eskimo Bulletin." (ALA152, $45.00)
	Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 • Georg Wilhelm Steller • O. W. Frost • EXPLORATION • The original account of the European discovery of Alaska, including a vivid description of the harrowing return voyage. (RUS63, $23.95)
	North to the Orient • Anne Morrow Lindbergh • EXPLORATION • A classic account of pioneering aviation, this wonderfully written memoir includes adventures in Petropavlovsk and the Russian Far East, Japan and the Yangtze. (ARC36, $12.00)
	The Cruise of the Corwin • John Muir • William Frederic Bade • EXPLORATION • An account of an 1881 voyage with Muir and others in search of the Jeanette Expedition, this book is also an eyewitness report of little-known lands including the Chukchi Peninsula, Diomede, Wrangel and Herald islands. (ALA76, $16.95)
	Two in the Far North • Margaret Murie • Olaus Murie • EXPLORATION • FAVORITE • Murie's field biologist husband supplies not only fodder for the stories, but also the illustrations for this tale of life on the Alaskan frontier. (ALA57, $16.95)
	A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic • E.C. Pielou • NATURAL HISTORY • Our best-selling book on the Arctic, this guide covers the geography and climate, plants, birds and wildlife of the circumpolar north. (ARC03, $22.00)
	Bear Attacks, Their Causes and Avoidance • Stephen Herrero • NATURAL HISTORY • Despite its frightening title, this book is a helpful introduction to the natural history and behavior of the bear by a long-term researcher in the field. With useful tips on "avoidance." (BST21, $16.95)
	Glacier Ice • Austin Post • Edward R. LaChapelle • NATURAL HISTORY • A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. The text is by Ed LaChapelle, an avalanche researcher, glaciologist, mountaineer, skier, author and professor, who died in 2007 at 80 of a heart attack while on the slopes in Colorado. Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers along the North Pacific Coast of North America and into the interior ranges of Alaska is supplemented with groundbased photographs from the Himalayas, Switzerland, Chile, and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)
	Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth • Maurice Krafft • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT • This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America • National Geographic • FIELD GUIDE • From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
	Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide • Peter Harrison • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • A definitive, compact guide to all the world's seabirds, featuring 740 photographs. (FG16, $29.95)