Pocket Guides to Alaska

These handy pocket guides to Alaska provide entertaining and intriguing information on the wonders, past and present of the Great Land.

Alaska's Birds - $14.95 Item# 50-121
Alaska's Mushrooms - $12.95 Item# 50-122
Alaska's History - $10.95 Item# 50-123
Alaska's Wild Plants - $12.95 Item# 50-124
Alaska's Mammals - $12.95 Item# 50-125

Order the complete 5 volume set for only $49.95 Item# 50-120.

Alaska's Birds

Alaska, with its unspoiled wilderness and long summer daylight hours, is both the annual destination of around 200 species of the worlds migrating birds as well as year-round habitat for the states resident birds. This unique guidebook showcases the unusual behaviors, seasonal adaptations, and dramatic beauty of representative species of Alaska's intriguing birds. In this enjoyable compact volume, you'll find:

Up-close-and-personal bird profiles
Distinctive color photos, illustrations, and maps
Tips on finding birds in Alaska
Hints on taking successful photos
Lists of other Alaska bird guides
A handy checklist of Alaska's 443 bird species
An in-depth index

Robert H. Armstrong is the author of the comprehensive perennial favorite, Guide to the Birds of Alaska. A resident of Juneau, he also co-authored The Nature of Southeast Alaska, a popular guide to his home region. Since 1960, Bob Armstrong has worked in Alaska as a fisheries professor, biologist, naturalist, and nature photographer.

Alaska's Birds
A Guide to Selected Species
softbound, 4 1/2" x 8"
124 pages
69 color photos, 15 color illustrations and 2 color maps
$14.95 Item# 50-121
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Alaska's Mushrooms

When it comes to mushrooms, Alaska is vast, uncharted territory. whether you hunt mushrooms for the pleasure of eating them or for the thrill of the hunt, Alaska's Mushrooms is a unique and indespensable guide to many of the reigon's most fabulous fungi. In a handy take-along format, it encourages beginning and experienced 'shroomers alike to pull on their boots and head outdoors. In this pocket guide you'll find:

Tips for finding, identifying, and collecting wild mushrooms
Helpful illustrations, color photos, and a map
Engaging in-depth discussions of each species
Important cautions for gathering and eating wild 'shrooms
Cooking hints and recipies
Reading list and index

Harriette Parker is a naturalist and an authority on the wild mushrooms of the north. She conducts field mycology classes and is president of the Alaska Mycological Society. She lives with her family in Homer, Alaska.

Alaska's Mushrooms
A practical Guide
softbound, 4 1/2" x 8" - 96 pages
37 color photos, 15 b&w illustrations and 1 color map
$12.95 Item# 50-122
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Alaska's History

Open Alaska's History and learn about the adventuresome people and exciting events that have shaped the Great Land. In a lively, digestible format, the sweep of Alaska's history is made vivid by historical photos and entertaining essays on topics such as:

Native lifestyles before contact with Europeans
Alexander Baranov and the Russian fur trade
John Muir's visit to Glacier Bay in 1879
The Klondike gold rush stampede
Pioneer climbs on Mt. Mckinley
The exploits of early Alaskan bush pilots
Big game hunting in the North Country
Alaska's fisheries, where salmon is king
Today's Native traditions

A history book that's fun to read, Alaska's History sets forth the Last Frontier's glorious past and challenging present.

Alaska's History
The People, Land, and Events of the North Country
softbound, 4 1/2" x 8" - 144 pages
56 photos, 11 illustrations and 3 maps
$10.95 Item# 50-123
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Alaska's Wild Plants

Alaska's Wild Plants is an easy-to-use introduction to more than 70 of Alaska's most common edible wild plants. Tuck this guide into a backpack, glove compartment, or pocket and use its color photographs and habitat and plant descriptions to help you discover the bounty of the land around you:

Gather bright green sea lettuce from rocks at low tide for tasty, nutritious spring salad.
Use jewelweed seeds in place of poppy seeds on biscuits and cakes. Or rub the crushed plant on mosquito bites to lessen itching.
Pick wild lingonberries after fall frost and create scrumptious nut breads, liqueurs, and jams.

The authorative gathering instructionsensure a healthful harvest. Learn about each plants nutritional content, and medicinal and culinary uses, then turn to the recipies for fresh salads, unusual appetizers, delicious soups and breads, and much more.

Alaska's Wild Plants
A Guide to Alaska's Edible Harvest by Janice J. Scholfield
softbound, 4 1/2" x 8" - 96 pages
80 color photos
$12.95 Item# 50-124
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Alaska's Mammals

Musk oxen, polar bears, walrus, lynx, humpback whales, orcas, caribou, moose, sea otters, wolves, grizzly bears, wolverines, stellar sea lions, beluga whales, dall sheep and more! Alaska hosts some of the most unique land and sea mammals in the world. In Alaska's Mammals, you'll find lively, intamate portraits of 22 land mammals and 13 sea mammalsof the North, and learn about their fascinating behaviors and their intriguing adaptations to a challenging arctic environment. This handy, take-along also features the following:

Distinctive full color photos of each mammal
Natural history facts for each animal: size, color, food, reproduction, life span, predators, habitat and range
Helpful hints on where and how to view Alaska's wildlife
Color maps of Alaska's biogeographical regions
Reading list and index

Both author Dave Smith and photographer Tom Walker are long time Alaskans. Dave Smith has worked in four national parks: Yellowstone, Glacier, Glacier Bay, and Denali. Tom Walker is one of Alaska's best-known wildlife photographers and writers.

Alaska's Mammals
softbound, 4 1/2" x 8" - 96 pages
40 color photos and 1 map
$12.95 Item# 50-125
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