read If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name recently. pretty good actually.

I know there's a ton of others. Michener's Alaska and L'Amour's Sitka also spring to mind.

I'm currently reading The Only Kayak, Kim Heacox, with lots of discussion re: conservation vs development

Hi Carol - welcome to the group. Glad to see you post!

The Only Kayak looks like a fascinating read. Can you imagine kayaking in Glacier Bay? or maybe you have yourself. I've visited there by ship, but it must be even more awe-inspiring by kayak. I've got a particular interest in the conservation vs. development theme myself, so that sounds appealing as well.

It also brought to mind two other Alaska books:
Coming into the Country by John McPhee
and
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

welcome again, and if there are any books you'd like to read as a "group" please let me know! :)

I've read "Alaska," "Sitka" and "Coming Into The Country" and all three are worthy of being in an Alaskan's bookshelf. While "Alaska" and "Sitka" are fiction, there still is a lot of fact in them.

Another good read is "The Sea Runners" by Ivan Doig, which fictionalizes a true happening (four Finns/Swedes in Russian America as indentured servants decide to escape the Russians and head to Astoria, Ore., in a Tlingít canoe). The first couple of chapters are a struggle for some people, but once you get past them the book reads well.

Something SciFi ... Try my book Fe Fi FOE Comes

Thought I'd chime in and mention Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch. It takes place in Unalakleet, AK (where the author lives). The New York Times said Roesch 'deftly portrays Unalakleet, where “every yard is littered with skeletons of four-wheelers and snow machines and fishing boats...'" You can find an excerpt here: http://issuu.com/unbridledbooks/docs/sam...

Unbridled wrote: "Thought I'd chime in and mention Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch. It takes place in Unalakleet, AK (where the author lives). The New York Times said Roesch 'deftly portrays U..."

Thank, Unbridled. I added this to my list of books to read. It sounds interesting.

Sad Fe Fi Foe Comes takes place all over Alaska, but centers on my old homestead south of Chitna on the Copper River.

“I know. It’s time for them too Aris.”
“I understand.” She looked at him with misty eyes then. “It seems that Alaska is destined to be always at the brink of crisis … catastrophe.”
He reached out and touched her face through his gauntlet. “It is because Alaska is the place that came last and where the people must act first … else disaster or worse be our destiny,” he spoke the ritual.
She reached out and took his hand; she spoke quietly her eyes locked to his. “The only thing worse than disaster would be that I not have you.”
He kissed her then, his lips soft on hers, then broke away and told her firmly, “You must go inside now .. for both our sakes.” Idavold

Arctic wrote: "read If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name recently. pretty good actually.

I know there's a ton of others. Michener's Alaska and L'Amour's Sitka also ..."

I just read about this book and even though I'm just temporarily living in Alaska, I really want to read it

Jennifer wrote: "Arctic wrote: "read If You Lived Here I'd Know Your Name recently. pretty good actually.

I know there's a ton of others. Michener's Alaska and L'Amour's [book:Sitka|..."

Michener's Alaska is NOT realistic at all. His research was poor and the storyline did not work. He wrote marvelous books about other places but Alaska was not among them IMHO.
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