The Reader's Companion to Alaska Author:Alan Ryan (Editor) A compilation of writings, many of them first-person accounts, about impressions of Alaska, arranged geographically. The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awe-struck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly's footprin... more »ts in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the "cruise from hell; " and more.
First sight of Glacier Bay, 1879 / John Muir --
The Inside Passage, 1886 / Frederick Schwatka --
The Inside Passage and beyond, 1911 / Margaret E. Murie --
80 miles NW of Juneau, 1917 / V. Swanson --
Newlyweds head north: Anchorage, 1941 / Constance Helmericks --
Denali: The summit in winter / Jonathan Waterman --
Overnight on Denali / Charles Kuralt --
A year on Togiak Lake / Fred Hatfield --
Ice-caving Beneath the Castner Glacier, Alaska Range / Kris Capps --
Summer at Kuskokwim Bay / Richard Adams Carey --
Nome / Anne Morrow Lindbergh --
Running the Iditarod / Libby Riddles and Tim Jones --
Winter in Fairbanks, 1911 / Margaret E. Murie --
Valdez to Fairbanks, by bicycle, 1941 / Dorothy Lawrence Minkler --
The Alaska Highway: Whitehorse to Fairbanks / Jim Christy --
The pipeline, Pump Station Eight, winter / Joe McGinniss --
Sleetmute: Winter of the soul / Tom Kizzia --
On the Yukon River / Pierre Berton --
Dateline: Eagle / Ernie Pyle --
Fort Yukon and Venetie: Heading for the bush / Jean Aspen --
Near Richardson, alone / John Haines --
The encircled river / John McPhee --
Brooks Range, Gates of the Arctic, 1994 / Jon Krakauer --
Winter alone in the Brooks Range / James Ramsey --
Barrow, 1931 / Anne Morrow Lindbergh --
Prudhoe Bay or bust! / Tim Cahill --
Prudhoe Bay, Pump Station One / Barry Lopez --
On the Bering Sea: In a walrus-skin boat / Berton Roueche« less