Reading List

    Alaska & Pacific Northwest History fiction & non-fiction:
  • The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
  • Where the Sea Breaks Its Back by Corey Ford & Lois Darling
  • The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch (Puget sound natural history story)
  • Lord Of Alaska by Hector Chevigny (Story of Lord Baronof and Russian Alaska)
  • The Islands Within by Richard Nelson (real life outside coast)
    Natural History:
  • Living on the Wind by Scott Weidensaul (informative book about bird migration)
  • The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of North America
  • Communicating with the Orcas by Mary Getten (interspecies communication)
  • Whales Dolphins and Porpoises by Mark Cowardine (DK Handbook)
  • The Nature of Southeast Alaska by Rita M O.Clair, et al
  • Mind in the Waters by Joan McIntyre (out of print)
  • Blue Bear by Lynn Schuler (Looking for Southeast Alaska's rare Glacier Bear)
I have an extensive collection of nature guide books and interesting reading onboard. However, you may wish to have your own bird guide. I suggest Sibley's Field Guide to birds of Western North America