Alaska


The Great Alone
The Snow Child
Into the Wild
To The Bright Edge of the World
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
The Call of the Wild
Alaska
The Simple Wild (Wild, #1)
A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak #1)
Coming Into the Country
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
The Smell of Other People's Houses
John Green
The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick. ...more
John Green, Looking for Alaska

The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a m ...more
Corey Ford, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska

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