Alaska Reader

More than 1.3 million people visit Alaska each year to experience its unique history, abundant wildlife, diverse cultures, and natural beauty. This book enriches that experience. Here is a collection of authentic voices, oral and written, that depicts Alaska with intelligence, integrity, and authenticity. Encompassing classic and contemporary writers and storytellers—established and new, insiders and outsiders—this anthology includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and oral tradition. Several books that have recently gained national attention are highlighted: Seth Kantner’s Ordinary Wolves, Marjorie Cole’s Correcting the Landscape, and Dan O’Neill’s The Firecracker Boys