 | The Milepost, 2006
Buy used from: $5.55 The Milepost is the Bible of Alaskan Road travel - buy it before you leave because if you wait to buy it in Canada, it's much more expensive! Also, buy the current edition - it is edited and updated every year. Detailed and extremely useful information!
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 | Traveler's Guide to Alaskan Camping: Explore Alaska and the Yukon with RV or Tent (Traveler's Guide series) by Mike Church
Buy used from: $2.70 Very helpful guidebook, with camping not only in Alaska, but also all along the Alaska Highway and other routes (the Cassiar, for example) listed.
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 | Alaska (Regional Guide) by Jim DuFresne
Buy used from: $1.90 Lonely Planet Guides are excellent
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 | Alaska by Cruise Ship: The Complete Guide to Cruising Alaska with Giant Pull-out Map (5th Edition) by Anne Vipond
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.01 Our first trip to Alaska was by Cruise Ship up the Inside Passage - even if a cruise isn't your thing, the Inside Passage is well worth it - fantastic!
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 | Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska (Adventure Guide to the Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska) by Ed Readicker-Henderson
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.46 Many adventures to be had...
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 | Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson
Buy used from: $11.64 Adventure is everywhere
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 | World Famous Alaska Highway: Guide to the Alcan & (World-Famous Alaska Highway: A Guide to the Alcan & Other) by Tricia Brown
Buy used from: $6.93 This sounds interesting!
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 | Alaska and Yukon History Along the Highway by Ted Stone
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.26 Pick up a little history on the way
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 | Alaska at Your Own Pace: Traveling by RV Caravan by Bernice Beard
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.37 A lot of people go to Alaska for the first time by RV caravan - safety in numbers, I guess. It doesn't matter how you get there - just go - it will be great no matter what!
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 | RVing Alaska and Canada by Sharlene G. Minshall
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $10.00 I've never seen this book, but would have gotten it before our last RV trip up to Alaska, I think.
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 | Rving Alaska by Land and Sea (RVing Books) by Bill Moeller
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.96 Bill Moeller writes a lot of useful RVing books, I'm sure this one is no different.
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 | Backroads of Alaska and the Yukon by Joan Donaldson-Yarmey
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $4.52 Hooray for backroads!
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 | Alaska Off the Beaten Path, 6th (Off the Beaten Path Series) by Deb Vanasse
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $4.75 Go deeper!
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 | Alaska Wilderness: Exploring the Central Brooks Range by Robert Marshall
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $14.81 The Brooks Range is amazing!
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 | Arctic Village: A 1930's Portrait of Wiseman, Alaska (Classic Reprint Series) by Robert Marshall
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $6.01 We stayed in Wiseman, and this is a book I'd like to read, because I don't think it's changed all that much!
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 | Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.95 Wonderful autobiographical story by Margaret Murie of growing up and living in the far north of Alaska with her naturalist husband, Olaus Murie.
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 | Going to Extremes (Plume) by Joe McGinniss
Buy used from: $0.01 I read this years ago and enjoyed it - probably where I first heard of the Brooks Range and the far north.
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 | Coming into the Country by John McPhee
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.31 This was the first book I remember reading on Alaska years ago - John McPhee is an excellent writer and I enjoyed this book.
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 | In a Far Country by John Taliaferro
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $0.01 Early adventures in Alaska's Arctic
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 | Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.01 Wonderful and heartwarming true story of a young idealistic teacher in rural Alaska in the early 1900's. Takes place in Chicken, Alaska - the town miners wanted to name Ptarmigan, but couldn't spell it - haahaha!
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.20 We read this book while camping on the Teklanika River in Denali National Park, just a few miles from where Chris McCandless ended up at "the bus" - very poignant and excellent reading.
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 | Travels in Alaska by John Muir
Buy new: $4.02 / Used from: $4.00 As a former Yosemite Ranger, I have to like John Muir, but I think I would anyway. His is an eloquent and impassioned voice for wilderness that hasn't dimmed in relevance over the passage of time.
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 | Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast by Nancy Lord
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $1.30 An excellent book - paralleling the story of the Harriman Expedition of 1898 with Lord's modern day life aboard a Salmon Tender in the same wildly beautiful waters of the Alaskan coast.
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 | Fishcamp Life on an Alaskan Shore by Nancy Lord
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $1.90 Nancy Lord is a wonderful writer
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 | Beluga Days: Tracking the Endangered White Whale by Nancy Lord
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $3.55 Belugas are amazing! We saw several of them in Turnagain Arm, just south of Anchorage.
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 | Alaska Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species (A Pocket Naturalist Guide) by James Kavanagh
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.43 Besides the ubiquitous Bald Eagles, watch for Gyrfalcons, Jaegers, Arctic Terns, Puffins, Murres, Auklets, Murrelets, and so many more!
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 | Guide to the Birds of Alaska by Robert H Armstrong
Buy used from: $2.64 Go Birding!
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 | Bear Viewing in Alaska: Expert Techniques for a Great Adventure by Stephen F. Stringham
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $4.95 Bears are a highlight of any trip!
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 | Alaska's Wildlife by Carrie Compton
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $20.60 Grizzlies, Black Bears, Polar Bears, Dall Sheep, Mountain Goats, Beluga Whales, Orcas, Ptarmigan, Arctic Fox, Lynx, Arctic Hare, Arctic Ground Squirrel, Moose, Caribou, Wolves, Porcupine, Otters, Salmon, and so much more!
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 | Fishing Alaska (Regional Fishing Series) by Evan Swensen
Buy new: $10.28 / Used from: $1.25 We don't fish, but wow, if you do, Alaska is the place to be!! Five delicious species of Salmon, Halibut, Arctic Char, and so much more... yum!
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 | Alaska's Fish: A Guide to Selected Species (Alaska Pocket Guide) by Robert H Armstrong
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.85 Know the five kinds of Salmon... and more!
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 | Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Alaska Mysteries) by Sue Henry
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Sue Henry writes fun light mysteries that have great descriptions of Alaskan places and traditions.
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 | Murder on the Yukon Quest: An Alaska Mystery by Sue Henry
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The Klondike Highway and Top of the World Highway in Yukon and Alaska follow the route of this 1000 mile dogsled race - it was fun reading about places we were traveling through in a light mystery.
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 | Death Takes Passage (Alaska Mysteries) by Sue Henry
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Murder on the Inside Passage - more light mystery reading with good descriptions of place.
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 | Dead North: An Alaska Mystery by Sue Henry
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Takes place on the Alaskan Highway, and features the Dawson Peaks campground near Teslin, Yukon.
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 | A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak Mystery) by Dana Stabenow
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Dana Stabenow is a popular Alaska Mystery Writer - darker and deeper plots than Sue Henry, great dialogue and character, but be warned, she doesn't use real places. She composites them and uses some real and some made up, but overall it's good description - you just may not be able to recognize it.
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 | Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $2.64 Simple yet inspiring tale of survival, friendship, and self-reliance.
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 | Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun by Velma Wallis
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.01 More from the Author of "Two Old Women"
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 | Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $4.54 On my reading list!
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