Welcome to the University of Alaska Press,
publisher of award-winning books on Alaska and the circumpolar north. Living with Wildness Crosscurrents North The Little Fox
Our purpose is to publish and distribute nonfiction about Alaska, the
Pacific Rim, Arctic Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia. We publish on
topics that include:
* history and politics
* natural history
* anthropology, Native studies, and folklore
* Native languages and literatures
* geology, climate, and the aurora
* exploration
* northern health
We invite you to explore our site and learn more about the North through
our books.
Our Newest Books
An Alaskan Odyssey
Authors: Sherwonit, William
Available June 10, 2008!!
Price: $21.95 / ISBN 13: 978-1-60223-014-9 (Paper)
Publication Date: June 2008
This series of essays explores the author’s relationship with the wild, both internal and external. His encounters follow along a continuum of “wildness,” from the urban wildlife near his home in Anchorage to close encounters in remote areas with wolves and bears, then plunges into the concept of the mythic “wild man.”
“Bill Sherwonit has added a fine new volume to the literature of place, a literature that may be the most vital and venturesome of any kind being written in America today."
—Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe.
“Like one of his winter days in Anchorage, Sherwonit’s book is bright and calm. Its gifts are a wild landscape of delight and a lesson in attentiveness.”—Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox.
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Alaskans on the Environment
Authors: Coray, Anne & Holleman, Marybeth
Available July 1, 2008!!
Price: $26.95 978-1-60223-022-4 (Paper)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
In this collection of sixty-one essays and poems, Alaskan authors respond to their environment. The pieces are celebratory, sobering, and thought-provoking. They express admiration and awe of the landscape and its wild inhabitants. They bear witness to the effects of climate change and react to the environmental side effects of development. They ponder the irony of the authors’ own impact, caused by the fact that they live here.
There are familiar names among the contributors to this anthology: John Haines, Nick Jans, Marjorie Kowalski Cole, Sherry Simpson, Bill Sherwonit, and a foreword by Jay Hammond, former governor of Alaska. All are passionate about their world—populated by icons like whales and wolves and bears and by the small and significant world of berries and moss and mushrooms.
The anthology celebrates the wildness and wonder of the land and raises questions about our relationship with the natural world.
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An Alaskan Adventure
Authors: Papish, Ram
Price: $15.95 / ISBN 13: 978-1-889963-87-7 (Cloth)
Publication Date: 2008
Follow the adventures of an arctic fox on an island in the
Bering Sea.
When the ice he is sleeping on breaks up and floats away,
Little Fox is accidentally transported to an island. As he
explores his new home, he meets seabirds and fur seals and
learns about their lives. Written and illustrated by a field
biologist with years of experience in Alaska, The Little Fox
introduces young readers to the animals of the Bering Sea—
the sounds they make, their sometimes unusual appearance,
and how they survive the short, intense arctic summer.
Ram Papish graduated from the
University of Oregon in 1995
with a degree in art and biology
and has worked as a field biologist
all over the Western Hemisphere.
He has studied nesting
seabirds on several remote
islands in Alaska and draws upon
his experiences as a biologist and
birder to produce beautiful and
accurate wildlife paintings.
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