Following the Alaskan Dream

Following the Alaskan Dream
Author: Marilyn Jordan George
Publisher: Little Norway Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Salmon fishing
ISBN: 9780967163918

In this gripping memoir, Marilyn captures the thrill of hunting for salmon while raising children aboard their troller. She shares the trials and joys of life in this last frontier. Includes black and white photos from the author's life.

I Dream Alaska

I Dream Alaska
Author: Natalie Fobes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780882405018

Fobes, Natalie, 1954-I Dream Alaska.

Alaska Dreams

Alaska Dreams
Author: Jennifer Snow
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369706285

Is she making the right decision…for her career and her heart? Following a near-death experience, Selena Hudson is finally going after the career she wants. And since casting directors won’t see her as anything but a rom-com queen, Selena signs on to produce and star in her own movie—an edgy psychological thriller. But just as the cast and crew arrive on location in Wild River, Alaska, the leading man drops out of the production. Reporter Gus Orosco is not hiding out in Wild River—he’s waiting for the dust to settle after his on-camera “overreaction” triggered by watching his ex-fiancee get engaged to a superstar hockey player. Gus doesn’t want to be anywhere near the film crew shooting at his family’s campgrounds, but Selena makes him an offer he can’t refuse: she’ll snag Gus an interview with Sports Beat if he’ll be her leading man. All Gus has to do is learn his lines, hit his marks and somehow ignore the sparks flying between them…even though they’re hot enough to melt the Alaskan snow. Bonus Novella Jade Frazier learns that Christmas is the season for second chances—in life as well as love—in Jennifer Snow’s An Alaskan Christmas Homecoming.

Journey to A Dream

Journey to A Dream
Author: Mary T. Lovel
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 1411691458

The true story of the Lovel family and their journey from middle America to the wilds of Alaska during the 1960's. Their success in homesteading land to earn and obtain title and the adventures they experience raising four small children in the wilderness.

Building Alaskan Dreams

Building Alaskan Dreams
Author: Jade (Judith) Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2014-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615956671

Adventure, hardship, heartbreak and ultimate victory are woven through this true story of one man's modern day Alaskan homesteading experience. After a series of disastrous events leads to a bitter divorce and destroys a prosperous mid-Western farming life, Travis hits the road in an old pick-up truck. Aimless and aching, homeless for several years, arrested in a string of small towns in the Deep South for being a vagrant and other petty 'crimes,' he finds himself on a downward slide until he reads of Alaskan homesteading in a 'Mother Earth News' magazine, and begins to dream of his own land. That dream comes to life in the shadow of Alaskan mountain splendor, where he creates a working homestead from little more than thin air and his own rugged determination and guts. Face-to-face encounters with bears, surviving 60-below zero winters in a tiny dirt-floored lean-to, learning to use dogs as draft animals to get the homestead work done - these are just a few of the challenges he must overcome to carve out a life in harsh sub-arctic Alaska. Interviews, original diary entries, photos and illustrations are an important part of the historical record of this homestead saga.

Crude Dreams

Crude Dreams
Author: Jack Roderick
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Alaska
ISBN: 9780945397601

In February 1968, the rumors became reality: An ARCO drilling rig has struck oil -- lots of oil -- on Alaska's remote North Slope. Jack Roderick's story of oil and politics in Alaska reads like a novel as he tells of the risky, expensive, and mostly frustrating search for oil across the 49th state. Oil companies watch one another jealously. Small independents and the new state struggle to share in the action dominated by huge multi-national oil companies. Gov. Bill Egan, the shy grocer from Valdez, stands up to the industry, seeking the largest possible share of oil revenues for Alaskans.

Alaskan Dreams

Alaskan Dreams
Author: Beth Carpenter
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488068100

The dream she wants The love she found Lauren Shepherd has traded her hectic office job for a quiet life working on an elderly friend’s farm. Risking everything to move to Alaska might just be the perfect opportunity for her—if Lauren can convince handsome and fiercely protective Patrick O’Shea that she’s not swindling his grandmother. But when financial troubles threaten her dream, Lauren and Patrick unite in a hunt for a legendary treasure…only to discover something between them more precious than gold. From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging.

The Sun Is a Compass

The Sun Is a Compass
Author: Caroline Van Hemert
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316414433

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel