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More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduat ... Read more

More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of millions of Americans.Now, Peter is a bit older, married with a family, and his journeys are different than they were. Perhaps he is looking for adventure, perhaps inspiration, perhaps new communities, perhaps unspoiled land. Certainly, he found all of this and more in Alaska, America's last wilderness.Looking for Alaska is Peter's account of eighteen months spent traveling over twenty thousand miles in tiny bush planes, on snow machines and snowshoes, in fishing boats and kayaks, on the Alaska Marine Highway and the Haul Road, searching for what defines Alaska. Hearing the amazing stories of many real Alaskans--from Barrow to Craig, Seward to Deering, and everywhere in between--Peter gets to know this place in the way that only he can. His resulting portrait is a rare and unforgettable depiction of a dangerous and beautiful land and all the people that call it home. He also took his wife and eight-year-old daughter with him, settling into a "home base" in Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, coming and going from there, and hosting the rest of their family for extended visits. The way his family lived, how they made Alaska their home and even participated in Peter's explorations, is as much a part of this story as Peter's own travels.All in all, Jenkins delivers a warm, funny, awe-inspiring, and memorable diary of discovery-both of this place that captures all of our imaginations, and of himself, all over again. Minimize

Cornelius Randolf Raven (C.R. for short) is the opinionated ... Read more

Cornelius Randolf Raven (C.R. for short) is the opinionated but highly informed host of this expedition across Alaska. Join him as he introduces and explains all of the wonders that make Alaska such a remarkable place. Here are thirsty mosquitoes; four species of whales; lush, wet rain forests; glaciers that go for miles; chilly permafrost; and giant vegetables that bask in twenty hours of sunlight per day during the summer. K.E. Lewis's lively illustrations make this book as irresistible and fascinating as the Great Land itself. Minimize

Join Pentrex for a fast-paced ride back to the Last Frontie ... Read more

Join Pentrex for a fast-paced ride back to the Last Frontier with the excitement of classic diesels, a wide array of passenger and freight trains, and fantastic scenery as you explore the Alaska Railroad of 1984! Climb into the cab of an F7-A for the trip from Anchorage to Fairbanks. Then drive your automobile onto the Whittier Shuttle to experience an auto/train ride like no other. Enjoy special passenger trains such as the State Fair Special, a cruise ship train, and passenger service to Denali Park. Freight action is also featured, including the gravel trains that work furiously during the summer months and railcars being unloaded from barges traveling up from the "lower 48." F-units were still in action on the Alaska Railroad of 1984. You'll see them as well as hard working GP40s, GP7s, and GP35s in their dramatic ARR paint schemes. Here's your chance to relive an important time in the life of a unique rail operation - the Alaska Railroad! Minimize

Giants in the Dark - Winter on the Alaska Railroad The thi ... Read more

Giants in the Dark - Winter on the Alaska Railroad The third in our 3-volume DVD series about the Alaska Railroad brings you a view of Alaskan railroading like no other, for it carries you along the rails in the dead of winter, when temperatures are minus 30 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit and you're lucky if you see five hours of daylight. Photographer Patrick Hunstiger set up his studio lights and cameras to capture this incredible action in 1994. Now, with this new DVD release from Pentrex, you can experience powerful diesels challenging the cold, snow, and darkness, guiding freight and passenger trains through the frozen frontiers of the Alaskan wilds. Winter alters the way the Alaska Railroad does business. A busy summer week of up to 100 trains a week will drop to 25 during the winter. However, the spectacular drama of railroading in Alaska is undiminished. GP40-2s, GP49s, a GP30, F7-B, E8-B, and MP15 are seen spewing show from the rails, sliding through the darkness while snow flurries cover the cabs, and hauling their trains past ice clogged-bays and jagged white peaks. Approaching the Alyeska Ski Resort in Girdwood aboard the Ski Train is a magical sight for the mountain is lit for night skiing, but for the most part what you'll see is the bitter cold, the heavy storms, and the dangers facing the men and equipment in a land of perpetual darkness. It's an extraordinary insight into a type of railroading that few dare to face. **NOTE: Description and image provided by Train Video Depot. Other Amazon sellers (if any) may not be selling this identical item. Minimize

Alaska Gingerbread Moose evolved when my grandson, Owen, an ... Read more

Alaska Gingerbread Moose evolved when my grandson, Owen, and I began to ad lib after reading and telling other bedtime stories. It grew until Alaska Gingerbread Moose became our main story of the evening. We had great fun imagining the characters and developing new ideas. We used our own Alaska animals and Alaska's beautiful countryside for our story. Minimize

Long time friends Leslie and Liz are smart, talented and su ... Read more

Long time friends Leslie and Liz are smart, talented and successful women. In their mid-fifties, the two have what many in their Baby Boomer generation have striven for: successful careers, beautiful homes, country club memberships, and financial security. In fact, they have everything mature women could want, including loving (if sometimes clueless) husbands. But lately, something seems not quite right. The two self-crowned “Queens” often talk and dream of shucking the mantles of their corporate and suburbia worlds, where people and circumstances require them to pretend to be people they aren’t. And they’ve joked for years about running away in a motor home. But they never did. Until on one ordinary day, and after some impulsive, secret preparations, and brief notes to their families, the two pack up their newly acquired motor home, and begin the long awaited adventure they’ve dreamed of for so long. The road life they adopt teems with new experiences, new friends, and many challenges. But that’s not all. For along the way, it is not just their original plans and dreams that are altered. Their very lives and relationships take on new meaning, as well. But with this experience and adventure comes yet more questions to be answered. Should they stay on the road? Will their husbands ever understand? Will they be safe? What else waits beyond that horizon? And most importantly, can they or will they ever go home again? Minimize

Stretching from Seward to Fairbanks, rising from tidewater ... Read more

Stretching from Seward to Fairbanks, rising from tidewater up 2,360 feet to the Continental Divide, and running nonstop during sunless days and perpetual twilight, the Alaska Railroad is a hard-working operation that serves a land of extreme weather and incredible beauty. In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Patrick Hunstiger captured the fascination of the Alaska Railroad in a 3-part series of VHS videos and now Pentrex is proud to bring these programs to you on DVD, beginning with Volume 1: Steel Rails, Midnight Sun - Summer on the Alaska Railroad. In 1993, the Alaska Railroad could field up to 17 trains covering up to 3,300 train miles in any given 24-hour period. These included two passenger extras; overnight freights and freight expresses; oil tanker, unit coal, and rock trains; work extras; and others. The ARR"s all-GM locomotive fleet, which sported three different color schemes, was made up of GP40-2s, GP49s, GP38-2s, GP35s, GP7s, and MP15s. Cabooses could still be seen at the ends of some trains. You"ll get plenty of opportunity to enjoy these trains at work! After a brief look at a derailment earlier that spring, you"ll follow the operations of the line starting at 7 AM on a busy June day and carry on into the evening, ending with a meet illuminated by the midnight sun at 1 AM. The trains are dispatched from Anchorage under Track Warrant Control and you"ll view the dispatcher"s display boards to see siding and train status in between catching the action at Eklunta, Matanuska, Talkeetna, Broad Pass, Healy, Clear Site, Nenana, and other locations. Highlights include a unit coal train pulled by 6 matched GP49s, a passenger extra at Denali Park, action on the tall trestle spanning Hurricane Gulch, and of course the incredible skylines of craggy, snow-capped mountains reaching up from floors of emerald green forests! Minimize

John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this spraw ... Read more

John Wayne and Stewart Granger strike it rich in this sprawling, brawling comedy-adventure set in the rowdy heydey of the Alaskan gold rush. When prospectors Sam McCord (Wayne) and George Pratt (Granger) finally hit the mother lode, George asks Sam to go to Seattle and fetch his sweetheart, Jennie, but she's already married someone else. Heartbroken for his buddy's sake, Sam visits a saloon, meets dancer (Capucine) and invites her back to Nome as Jennie's replacement - the plan goes perfectly until Sam falls in love with her too! Minimize

This exciting game presents a fun and educational approach ... Read more

This exciting game presents a fun and educational approach to grocery shopping that can be adapted to fit different levels and abilities. The goods on the included shopping lists and game board can be used for matching or can be sorted into categories. More advanced players can apply basic math skills to add up their lists, give discounts and apply coupons. This is a great tool for reinforcing daily living skills and independence, as players learn all about what to expect at the supermarket. Minimize

Recorded on St Lawrence Island by Miriam C. Stryker in 1966 ... Read more

Recorded on St Lawrence Island by Miriam C. Stryker in 1966 this album features songs from the Yupik Eskimos that have long occupied the Island and who live in two separate villages Savoonga and Gambell. Eskimo legend tells of the Island's formation: The Sea Goddess, picking up a handful of ooze from the bottom of the sea, squeezed it between her fingers, forming mountains that are part of its interesting terrain. This rugged terrain means a hard life for a people who live off the land. The songs relate through subjects such as hunting, fishing, boats, animals and the like. The lyrics are often very sparse and sometimes the song consists solely of chanted syllables. Liner notes include history of the Yupik Eskimos and song information. Minimize

Penny Panda provides lots of practice in counting money. Fo ... Read more

Penny Panda provides lots of practice in counting money. Four main activities help children with counting a given amount, comparing amounts, presenting money to match a specific sum, and determining change accurately. Program Options: Choose to present activities in either English or Spanish. For each of the 4 activities, Count, Compare, Pay Exact Amount, and How Much Change?... select one of 24 levels beginning as simple as Pennies to 10 cents, Pennies to 20 cents, Dimes to 50 cents,... working up through Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies to $1.00... and culminating with inclusion of $5 bill, $1 Bills, Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies up to $10. Teachers may have students remain at the selected level, or advance automatically through each level based on your defined competency setting of a given percentage correct for N problems. An added option allows teachers to include the newer coin faces for quarters and nickels along with the older, more standard ones. Minimize

Get ready to control America's greatest industry - Hollywoo ... Read more

Get ready to control America's greatest industry - Hollywood. It's not enough to own the movies that make the most money...the object is to control the companies that bring us those hits every day of the year. Buy and sell talent to create your film packages, sell your movies for big bucks, then use the cash to control America's entertainment giants. But don't get too laid back or you'll lose control as easily as you gained it. In the world of movie-making, movie theatres, television, video, cable and theme parks, this is the greatest 90 minutes of Hollywood power play you'll ever want to experience - over and over again! Minimize

The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in the small ... Read more

The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in the small town of Concordia, Tennessee-a town consisting of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, one picture show, one feed and seed, one hardware store, one beauty parlor, one barber shop, one blacksmith, and many Christian churches. That didn't stop Aaron Bronson, a Russian immigrant, from moving his young family out of New York by horse and wagon and journeying to this remote corner of the South to open a small dry goods store, Bronson's Low-Priced Store. Never mind that he was greeted with "Danged if I ever heard tell of a Jew storekeeper afore." Never mind that all the townspeople were suspicious of any strangers. Never mind that the Klan actively discouraged the presence of outsiders. Aaron Bronson bravely established a business and proved in the process that his family could make a home, and a life, anywhere. With great fondness and a fine dry wit, Stella Suberman tells the story of her family in an account that Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, described as "a gem...Vividly told and captivating in its humanity." Now available for the first time in paperback, here is the book that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said was "forthright. . . . not a revisionist history of Jewish life in the small-town South but . . . written within the context of the 1920s, making it valuable history as well as a moving family story." Minimize

Children everywhere will love the chants and poems in Alask ... Read more

Children everywhere will love the chants and poems in Alaska Animals, We Love You! and accompanying CD. Whether alone or in groups, they will learn to speak and read through this medium. Usuing rhythm, rhyme, ostinatos, isstruments or melody, each poem instructs about langue. Most of these poems or chants teach scientific facts about Alaska animals. The sparkling illustrations will dazzle every animal-loving heart. The CD, which is included in this hard cover book, will add to the fun children will have with Alaska Animals, We Love You!. Minimize

Sort & Store your LEGO bricks. A fast and easy way to Sort ... Read more

Sort & Store your LEGO bricks. A fast and easy way to Sort & Store your Lego bricks! Tip your Lego Bricks into the Sorter. Shake gently and Lego Bricks will sort into small, medium, and large sections. Lift each section to reveal sorted Lego Bricks inside. Built in carry handle. Can hold over a thousand LEGO pieces. LEGO pieces sold separately. Minimize

Addons usually ship in plastic baggy-like bags, not in the ... Read more

Addons usually ship in plastic baggy-like bags, not in the standard retail boxes. This should be considered when gifting. Choking Hazard - Small Parts. Not suitable for children under 3. Designed for ages 4 and up. Minimize

Do iceworms eat ice?  Can you hear the aurora?  How does mo ... Read more

Do iceworms eat ice?  Can you hear the aurora?  How does mosquito repellent work?  Why are Alaskan volcanoes evenly spaced along the coast?  Is it possible for hot water to freeze faster than cold water?  Where are Alaska's more than 125 hot springs?  Why are northern twilights so long?  Do glaciers slide or do they flow?  Why do snowflakes flutter as they fall? In Alaska Science Nuggets, Neil Davis answers these and many other intriguing questions in the entertaining and informative style that makes him one of Alaska's favorite science writers.  This compendium of nearly 400 articles, including articles by other contributors to a science column carried by various Alaska newspapers, discusses phenomena as diverse as the northern lights, permafrost, glaciers, meteorology, volcanoes, earthquakes, archaeology, Alaskan plants, mammoths, early humans, and northern living. Tourists and long-time Alaskans alike have made this much-loved book a bestseller for years.  Alaska Science Nuggets is a great reference or gift for anyone interested in the phenomenal natural history of the North. Minimize

Audrey Purkeypile was born in northern Alaska in 1927 durin ... Read more

Audrey Purkeypile was born in northern Alaska in 1927 during a remarkable era of Alaskan history. Surrounded by the wondrous beauty of untamed land, Audrey s parents raised their family alongside the affable Eskimos, daring bush pilots, and rugged trappers and gold miners. They contributed to the development of the Territory of Alaska in their diverse roles as teacher, postmaster, health officer, and reindeer superintendent. In this poignant memoir, author Cheryl Schuermann has captured the delightful stories of her mother s childhood in When the Water Runs. Audrey s memories and life lessons learned will provide readers with an inside look at a young girl s experiences as she grows up with Alaska, America s last frontier. Minimize