Going to Alaska this summer, so here's some primers
created by Han-nah
last updated March, 2026
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913
McKay Jenkins
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
Andy Hall
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Gary Paulsen
Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
Jean Craighead George
The Smell of Other People's Houses
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
To The Bright Edge of the World
Eowyn Ivey
White Fang
Jack London
Forty-Ninth
Boris Pronsky
Blizzard
Marie Vingtras
Cold Storage, Alaska (Cold Storage, #2)
John Straley
The Wind Is Not a River
Brian Payton
Alaska: A History of the 49th State
Claus M. Naske
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Velma Wallis
The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The World Readers)
Maria Shaa TlĂĄa Williams
Travels in Alaska
John Muir
Coming Into the Country
John McPhee
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Alaska
James A. Michener
The Call of the Wild
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
The Snow Child
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