Must Read Alaska
Discover the best Alaska books to read, featuring Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Coming Into the Country by John McPhee, and Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner. Explore gripping wilderness adventures and biographies that capture the raw beauty and harsh reality of life in the Last Frontier on our must-read Alaska book list.
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Ordinary Wolves
by Seth Kantner
Cutuk Hawcly, a white boy living among the natives of the Alaskan Tundra is torn between the culture of the modern cities where his father comes from and the Alaskan wilderness where he was born and raised.
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.