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Books Published and Under Contract

The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, publication June 2010). Humankind’s capacity for restraint examined through the lenses of history, anthropology, science and personal stories.

Vic Fischer memoir (University of Alaska Press, publication unscheduled). Under contract with grant funding from the University of Alaska to assist Fischer, an Alaska constitutional convention delegate, in writing his autobiography.

Alaska Day by Day (Wiley, publication 2010). A new illustrated travel guidebook on Alaska.

Saving for the Future: My Life and the Alaska Permanent Fund (By Dave Rose as told to Charles Wohlforth; Epicenter Press, 2008). Biography of an Alaskan pioneer politician and history of Alaska’s enormous oil wealth savings account.

The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004). Indigenous and scientific perceptions of Arctic climate change. Published in French as La baleine et le supercalculator (Paulsen, 2008).

Frommer’s Alaska (Wiley, 1996-2010). Thirteen editions of a leading travel guidebook covering all of Alaska.

Alaska For Dummies (Wiley, 2003-2009). Four editions of travel guidebook covering Alaska.

Frommer’s Family Vacations in the National Parks (Wiley, 1999-2004). Three editions of a guidebook covering travel, natural history and culture in 15 national parks and seashores.

Crisis in the Commons: The Alaska Solution (By Walter J. Hickel; Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2002). Assisted former Alaska governor and Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel in writing philosophical memoir.

Spectacular Alaska (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1998). Text for coffee table photography book.


Work Included in Books or Anthologies:

Alaska at 50: Past, Present, and the Next Fifty Years of Statehood, edited by Dr. G. W. Kimura (University of Alaska Press, 2009).

The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America’s Weather, by Jack Williams (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World, by Steven Kazlowski, et al. (Braided River/The Mountaineers Books, 2008).

The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, selected andintroduced by Barry Lopez (Milkweed Editions, 2007).

Global Climate Change, edited by Paul McCaffrey (H.W. Wilson, 2006). The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North, edited by Anne Hanley and Carolyn Kremers (Fulcrum, 2005).

The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North, edited by Anne Hanley and Carolyn Kremers (Fulcrum, 2005).

National Geographic National Parks: Atlas and Travel Planner (publication cancelled).

Frommer’s National Parks of the American West, by Don and Barbara Laine (two editions; IDG Books, 1998, 2000).

Frommer's USA, edited by Bill Godwin (Simon & Schuster, 1998).

Outside Magazine’s Guide to Family Vacations, by Frommer’s (Simon & Schuster, 1997).

Best Newspaper Writing 1990, edited by Don Fry and Karen Brown (Poynter Institute, 1990).

Season of Dead Water, edited by Helen Frost (Breitenbush, 1990).


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