One Last Cast Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Swensen, Evan
$14.95
Listeners of Alaska Outdoor Radio Magazine turned up the volume just a little as Evan ended his show with "And now before we close the show, there's just time for one last cast." One Last Cast is the collection of 120 of listeners' favorite one last casts. It's more than fishing Alaska. It's flying with Charlie's pilot, an early-morning walk on a deserted Kachemak Bay beach, digging clams, pulling crab and shrimp pots, taking pictures, keeping a campfire going, and watching and interacting with Alaska's wildlife. Sometimes it's doing nothing -- taking time to just sit, relax, and enjoy the surroundings, breathing air so pure you can't see it, listening to the deafening silence of a still night, or feeling the immense size of wilderness on a clear day with unlimited visibility. One Last Cast is the genuine Alaska outdoor experience.
Opening Hearts Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Allred, Sam & Emily
$12.95
Cuppycake Sam shares his six-plus years experience of having a chronic illness. Sam's purpose for writing Opening Hearts is to provide hope and encouragement for kids who are chronically ill, and to open hearts of people throughout the world. To build an understanding that we should not judge others, for we do not know the trials and challenges that all individuals must face.
Optimum Use of Space Click Picture of Cover for Larger View La Fleur, Belinda
$9.95
Optimum Use of Space is the result of a self-imposed exile which was protected by the Alaska elements. "I tried to write about being alone, a curse and a blessing, in a completely foreign territory without family, old friends, and acquaintances to keep me from spilling out of my mold. It's about the challenges of the journey inward, discovering how tough I could be, and also how tender. Most of the poems were written in a 2-year period when I lived with my two children in a cabin without running water or electricity, a most natural setting for poetry to form."
Out on the Tundra Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Donkersloot, Sara
$14.95
Olive A Wadsworth's classic nursery poem, Over in the Meadow, was written in the late 1800s and is based on a traditional Southern Appalachian counting rhyme. Sara Donkersloot and Dale Preston created Out on the Tundra as a northern version of this timeless favorite using the animals found on Alaska's vast tundra. Follow along with Mother Porcupine and single porcupette, to Mother Ptramigan and her ten little chicks as you learn more about Alaska's wild animals. As children sing or recite the verses, they learn to count and learn more about Alaska plants, fish, and animals. Fact pages for each animal are included along with illustrations of animal tracks. This portrait of the Alaska wilderness is sure to become an Alaska children's classic.
Over The Back Fence Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Tower, Elizabeth
$14.95
Most Americans do not think of Canada as a foreign country--Canadians are their cousins, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. But Canadian historian Pierre Berton pointed out the difference in a speech in Alaska in 1997: "I know Americans sometimes irritate Canadians by saying, 'Oh, you're just like we are.' Well, we aren't you know, and we know it. We speak the same language, we wear the some clothes and watch a lot of the same movies. But there is an enormous difference between us. Canada is a nation created by the British Colonial System. It's a part of us, just as the Revolution and the Civil War are part of you."
Over the Back Fence helps to further explain these differences. Conflicts on both coasts, resulting from incomplete knowledge of North American geography, threatened to result in war. They were settled diplomatically, but in the War of 1812 cousins fought each other on the border.
Recent attention to Homeland Security has made Americans marginally aware of the boundary between the United States and Canada that has been virtually invisible for more than 100 years. Canadians, the majority of whom live within 100 miles of the border, cross it frequently and fear that new restrictions will interfere with trade that is essential to both countries.
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