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A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound
2017 Gold Medal - Independent Publisher Book Awards, Animals/Pets category
2019 Silver IPPY Award Winner in West-Pacific Best Regional Non-Fiction
2018 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner in Ecology & Environment
2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Nature
It’s been said that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and nowhere is that more true than on the pages of A Wild Prince William Sound . The images of photographer Hugh Rose show you what this region holds―and what will be lost without protection from future resource development. Alongside Hugh’s images are eloquent essays covering the natural and cultural history, people, and fragility of this region by noted Alaskan writer Debbie Miller.
Alaska’s famed Prince William Sound includes more than 3,000 shore land miles of bays, coves, and deep fjords topped by the ice-capped peaks of the Chugach Mountains. More than 1 million tourists visit the region annually, and small family-owned fishing boats, ecotourism, oyster farms, and guide services provide sustainable livelihoods for year-round Alaskan residents. Many Americans first came to know of Prince William Sound through the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989―a catastrophe with lingering long-term effects, such the collapse of the once abundant herring population, a critical fish in the marine food chain.
In A Wild Promise , readers travel alongside Hugh and Debbie as they hike and kayak from Columbia Glacier to College Fiord, exploring the Nellie Juan–College Fjord Wilderness Study Area, a region set aside for study in 1980, to be followed―it was hoped―by permanent protection from Congress. After almost four decades of being in limbo as a designated wilderness study area, the fate of this spectacular, wild place is now in our hands. Its protection is a gift we can offer generations to come―a promise of wilderness, beauty, and natural diversity that we can, indeed, keep.
To learn more about Braided River and its inspiring people to protect wild places through images and stories that change perspectives, please visit
2019 Silver IPPY Award Winner in West-Pacific Best Regional Non-Fiction
2018 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner in Ecology & Environment
2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Nature
It’s been said that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and nowhere is that more true than on the pages of A Wild Prince William Sound . The images of photographer Hugh Rose show you what this region holds―and what will be lost without protection from future resource development. Alongside Hugh’s images are eloquent essays covering the natural and cultural history, people, and fragility of this region by noted Alaskan writer Debbie Miller.
Alaska’s famed Prince William Sound includes more than 3,000 shore land miles of bays, coves, and deep fjords topped by the ice-capped peaks of the Chugach Mountains. More than 1 million tourists visit the region annually, and small family-owned fishing boats, ecotourism, oyster farms, and guide services provide sustainable livelihoods for year-round Alaskan residents. Many Americans first came to know of Prince William Sound through the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989―a catastrophe with lingering long-term effects, such the collapse of the once abundant herring population, a critical fish in the marine food chain.
In A Wild Promise , readers travel alongside Hugh and Debbie as they hike and kayak from Columbia Glacier to College Fiord, exploring the Nellie Juan–College Fjord Wilderness Study Area, a region set aside for study in 1980, to be followed―it was hoped―by permanent protection from Congress. After almost four decades of being in limbo as a designated wilderness study area, the fate of this spectacular, wild place is now in our hands. Its protection is a gift we can offer generations to come―a promise of wilderness, beauty, and natural diversity that we can, indeed, keep.
To learn more about Braided River and its inspiring people to protect wild places through images and stories that change perspectives, please visit
176 pages, Hardcover
Published March 14, 2018
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