The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska

"Can an ordinary and not especially heroic person be an adventurer? If she sets out in a wild place like Alaska, what will she find there, and what will she learn about the place she calls home? Throughout this compelling and probing book, Sherry Simpson illuminates the act of exploration as both a feat of extraordinary effort and as an everyday practice."

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The Way Winter Comes: Alaska Stories

"Simpson's debut collection of essays about Alaska, winner of the 1997 Chinook Literary Prize, combines a refreshing voice and vision in a work that is part adventure, part meditation and part natural history lesson....Readers will trust the voice immediately because she speaks the language of the Alaskan landscape. Simpson blurs the line between spectator and participant by living the experiences she writes about, and brings readers with her as she tracks the myths and realities of ravens, moose, bears, wolves and winter itself....In irresistible language, she bewitches the reader just as the Alaskan landscape has bewitched her." Publishers Weekly

Now available in paperback, with a new cover and illustrations by noted Alaskan artist Stewart Allison
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Glacier Bay National Park

This collaboration of photographs and short essays explores the landscape, cultural history, and natural history of one of Alaska's most dynamic places. "Glacier Bay is not just a place of physical transformation. People can change here, too. They learn to see the world differently, to find beauty not only in serenity but in severity.... Look away, and everything becomes new. The light shifts. The ice cascades. The tide ebbs. Glaciers carve up time and leave behind a stony blank space, and then life fills up the space slowly, slowly. This is the world on its way to becoming something else. This is the world remembering itself."

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