McCarthy was home to a world-class copper mine. It's an excellent history of McCarthy, Alaska, in the 20th century. But Cold Mountain Path is a good place to start. There are rainforests and the Arctic tundra, tiny villages and cities, and over 100 languages spoken, from Ahtna to Zulu.
Nominated by Heather Lende, Alaska state writer laureateĬold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska by Tom Kizzia: It is impossible to choose one book to represent Alaska because our state is so varied. In Alabama, we take our meat and threes and and Southern fare seriously and owe a great debt to Lewis. The Edna Lewis Cookbook by Edna Lewis and Evangeline Peterson: Once a dear friend of Alabama's Scott Peacock, the late Edna Lewis has been called "the South's answer to Julia Child." Her background reflects Southern truths of slavery and inequity, and her success is a reminder of the unsung heroes who make an outsize impact on our culture and, in the case of Lewis, what we eat. Rick Bragg covers lots of ground regarding what it means to live in the South: caring about your mama, the importance of being for the right sports team (hint: choose an SEC team), what foods makes you a true Southerner and why the chariot of his people, the pickup truck, no longer represents what it used to stand for. Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South by Rick Bragg: This book is a series of personal stories about the South that provide a sense of place and knowing that will make Southern readers grin and that will disclose a profound picture of the South to all others. “Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.Nominated by McCall Hardison, marketing director of the Little Professor bookshop in Homewood, Ala. “Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.” The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.” Takes the reader on a journey through one of the bleakest, richest, most foreboding, and highly inviting territories in our Republic, if not the world. “Few will escape the allure of the land and people describes. Traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people.īONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world,
As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska’s story: its brutal origins the American acquisition the gold rush the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. Michener guides us through Alaska’s fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A.
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