ISBN: 1-57510-121-1. Copyright 2005. Softcover. 287 pages. 25 B&W photos. Dimensions 5.75" x 8.75" x  .75".

From the back cover: Jim Rearden, Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist, recounts his search throughout the Far North for interesting people, places, and events.  Did he ever find them!  Rearden combines twenty previously published articles into a "best of" collection, interspersed with fresh insights into a changing Alaska.  He shares his favorite stories about:

• Hilarious and hair-raising episodes of early-day bush pilots
• A narrow escape from death on Mount McKinley
• Hollywood's humorous and hapless attempt to make a "genuine" Alaska film
• A Swedish trapper who spent 57 years alone in the wilderness
• Why the wolverine has such a quirky reputation
• The secret recovery of a Japanese Zero fighter during WW II
• Guarding Alaska's streams from salmon poachers

The author is former outdoors editor of Alaska magazine and was named Alaska's Historian of the Year 1999 by the Alaska Historical Society.  He has written twenty-one books about Alaska.

"Among hundreds of books about Alaska that have crossed by desk over the past 20 years, Jim Rearden's collection of stories ranks at the very top. I couldn't put it down." - Jill Shepherd, Senior Editor ALASKA magazine.

Table of Contents

Preface
Map
Moose Johnson's Ynix
Hollywood in Alaska
Adventure Was His Life
Koga's Zero
Castner's Cutthroats
Lost in the Talkeetnas
Legendary Bush Pilots
Alaska's Bears
Rescue on Mount McKinley
Fifty-Sever Years Alone
Savage River Wolves
My Friend the Grayling
Tales of the Wolverine
Voice in the Wilderness
Stream Guard
Hell on an Island
Return of the Sea Otter
The Russian Connection
At Home in the Wilderness
At Home on Kachemak Bay