Our Alaska: Personal Stories about Life in the North

Many influential visitors have written about Alaska, among them John Muir, John McPhee, and James Michener. In OUR ALASKA, award-winning writer and editor Mike Doogan forges an eclectic collection of stories both refreshingly simple and thoughtfully profound from a variety of Alaskan writers. These are real stories: among them sharing tales of boyhood trips to Lake Minchumina; growing up aboard a fishing trawler; being a ""tourist herder"" near Nome; understanding the rich, powerful meaning of the Koyukon Indian ""Hutlani"" code; recounting a black man's fateful decision to pass up a lucrative job in Washington, D.C. in favor of what Alaska offered his family; and understanding the importance of berry-picking to a city dweller.