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Walk About Guide #1 Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Lyons, Shawn $15.95 Shawn Lyons is, by vocation and avocation, a person of many parts. As a professional classical guitarist, he plays dinner music every Thursday through Saturday at Villa Nova Restaurant in Anchorage. When he is not playing guitar at Villa Nova, Shawn is a part-time instructor of guitar at the University of Alaska in Anchorage where he also teaches English Composition and Literature. Shawn is also avid hiker and hill scrambler. Growing up in the Boston area, he spent his early years wandering in the White Mountains. At the age of 17, he hiked the entire length of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine and, at the age of 18, hiked the Long Trail from Massachusetts to Canada. Since moving to Alaska, he has continued to hike and climb extensively. So much that after many long hikes through many a valley and over many a summit, he has become, for some, the hiking guru of Southcentral Alaska. Nor is this all he does in the outdoors. As an ultra-athlete, he is a nine-time winner of the Iditashoe wilderness snowshoe race, and three-time winner of the 100 mile Coldfoot Classic held each year on Halloween above the Arctic Circle. Shawn's narratives about his hikes and races often appear in a weekly hiking and climbing column that he writes for the Anchorage Daily News. Walk About Guide #2 Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Lyons, Shawn $16.95 Shawn Lyons is, by vocation and avocation, a person of many parts. As a professional classical guitarist, he plays dinner music every Thursday through Saturday at Villa Nova Restaurant in Anchorage. When he is not playing guitar at Villa Nova, Shawn is a part-time instructor of guitar at the University of Alaska in Anchorage where he also teaches English Composition and Literature. Shawn is also avid hiker and hill scrambler. Growing up in the Boston area, he spent his early years wandering in the White Mountains. At the age of 17, he hiked the entire length of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine and, at the age of 18, hiked the Long Trail from Massachusetts to Canada. Since moving to Alaska, he has continued to hike and climb extensively. So much that after many long hikes through many a valley and over many a summit, he has become, for some, the hiking guru of Southcentral Alaska. Nor is this all he does in the outdoors. As an ultra-athlete, he is a nine-time winner of the Iditashoe wilderness snowshoe race, and three-time winner of the 100 mile Coldfoot Classic held each year on Halloween above the Arctic Circle. Shawn's narratives about his hikes and races often appear in a weekly hiking and climbing column that he writes for the Anchorage Daily News. Walk About Guide #3 Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Lyons, Shawn $17.95 Shawn Lyons is, by vocation and avocation, a person of many parts. As a professional classical guitarist, he plays dinner music every Thursday through Saturday at Villa Nova Restaurant in Anchorage. When he is not playing guitar at Villa Nova, Shawn is a part-time instructor of guitar at the University of Alaska in Anchorage where he also teaches English Composition and Literature. Shawn is also avid hiker and hill scrambler. Growing up in the Boston area, he spent his early years wandering in the White Mountains. At the age of 17, he hiked the entire length of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine and, at the age of 18, hiked the Long Trail from Massachusetts to Canada. Since moving to Alaska, he has continued to hike and climb extensively. So much that after many long hikes through many a valley and over many a summit, he has become, for some, the hiking guru of Southcentral Alaska. Nor is this all he does in the outdoors. As an ultra-athlete, he is a nine-time winner of the Iditashoe wilderness snowshoe race, and three-time winner of the 100 mile Coldfoot Classic held each year on Halloween above the Arctic Circle. Shawn's narratives about his hikes and races often appear in a weekly hiking and climbing column that he writes for the Anchorage Daily News. Wally The Lost Baby Walrus Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Kiana Sr, Chris $14.95 This children's story is a true version of a baby walrus being adopted by a small coastal community in Alaska. Named Wally for the story, the baby walrus ventures into a coastal community and quickly wins the hearts of Eskimos living there. Wally survives on food brought to him, and eventually returns to the ocean waters learning how to eat food provided to him by nature. The baby walrus lives in the best of both worlds for over a year, thriving on everyday adventures in the community and starting to feel the ocean becoming more luring as he gets older. Finally, Wally the lost baby walrus, spots a herd of walrus swimming nearby and must make up his mind what to do. Does the baby walrus choose to join the walrus herd, or does he stay in the coastal community where he has found a good home? Where in the Hell is Sourdough Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Chmielowski, Josef $14.95 Ever eat a rabbit turd? Ever urinate on your brother's head? Ever use an outhouse at fifty below? Josef Chmielowski has. Not only that, but this sourdough from Sourdough has survived countless other entertaining situations, many of which are retold in this vivacious volume. Josef's collection of humorous short stories successfully captures the essence of daily routine on an Alaskan homestead, and investigates the undeniable link between mischief, males, and mayhem. Where's the Boss Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Harter, Lois $9.95 Crystal and Toby brought the team to a stop. Both leaders looked over their shoulder's, past the team, past the sled, and as far behind the sled as the darkness would let them see. There was no sign of Joe anywhere. Lead dogs, Toby and Crystal must figure out what to do when their musher is missing on Alaska's Iditarod Trail. Why Alaska Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Gleason, David & De Ann $9.95 How many of us have longed to chuck it al and run off to some far corner of the earth to start an entirely new life filled with unknown adventures and impossible challenges? This is the story of a couple who did. Leaving the security of a small Midwestern town occupied by their ancestors for generations, they followed a twisted path which eventually landed them and their five children in Talkeetna, Alaska. Alone and surrounded by strangers who were not all that anxious to welcome them, they nevertheless managed to form new friendships, establish new careers, and grow to love their new home surrounded by the beauty of Alaska and its people. Why Russia Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Gleason, David & De Ann $14.95 This true story begins in 1989 when C. David Gleason traveled to Russia to secure financing for several satellite earth stations throughout the Russian far east - a seemingly mundane assignment. However, from his first wild taxi ride through the streets of Moscow with a streetwise Russian mafia. Ssome four years later, Gleason often felt he was living a James Bond movie. He learned much about how others live and what they believe to be true about America in his journey into the heart and soul of a foreign land. You will be given a chance to vicariously join Gleason as he: * is placed in the unofficial- and precarious- position as and middleman between Russian businessmen and American entrepreneurs * is joined in by a cast of characters befitting any action adventure * goes fishing in Siberia with a former KGB colonel * attends glamorous functions with beautiful women at historic venues * becomes "hooked" by the rich heritage and beauty of the Russian countryside and people * Ends up bruised and battered-both literally and physically Write and Wrong Click Picture of Cover for Larger View Johnson, Marthy $19.95 English is a blend of passion and logic, except in spelling, which has nothing to do with either. Language is a set of conventions, some of them sensible, and some accidental. Usage is not so much a question of what is right or wrong as of what is or is not accepted. Accepted by whom? By the experts and the committees, and the advisers and the authorities, the stylists, and the grammarists, bless them, who write dictionaries, style guides, textbooks, handbooks, and grammar books in seventy-five volumes. They set limits; decide who has wiggle room and where. Academic writing operates in solitary confinement. Technical writing is medium-security; business writing a work-release effort. Next to them, creative writing is a resort. The only writing manual most writers will ever want -- or need!