Alaska Adventures

Pilgrim's Wilderness

A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

By: Tom Kizzia
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
 
When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new... Read more

One Man's Wilderness

An Alaskan Odyssey

By: Sam Keith & Richard Proenneke
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content with one's own thoughts and company.



Thousands... Read more

The Sun Is a Compass

A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

By: Caroline Van Hemert
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

“The Sun is a Compass is a biologist’s candid journey of self discovery complete with aggressive bears, playful humpback whales, feisty hummingbirds and scolding chickadees. Heading into the most remote areas of Alaska and Canada, Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Pat rowed, rafted, hiked, skied and canoed 4000 miles from Bellingham, Washington... Read more

81 Days Below Zero

The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness

By: Brian Murphy & Toula Vlahou
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

The untold story of Leon Crane, the only surviving crew member of a World War II B-24 crash on a remote mountain near the Arctic Circle, who managed to stay alive 81 days in sub-zero temperature by making peace with nature, and end his ordeal by walking along a river to safety. Part World War II story, part Alaskan adventure story, part survival... Read more

The Final Frontiersman

Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness

By: James Campbell
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

“You can’t get any closer to escapist literature or off the grid stories than The Final Frontiersman : Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell, narrated by Dan Warren. At the age of twenty, Heimo Korth decided to move to Alaska and stay there for the rest of his life, where he still lives with his wife... Read more

Braving It

A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild

By: James Campbell
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of... Read more

Four Thousand Paws

Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod, a Veterinarian's Story

By: Lee Morgan
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

An intimate account—the first from a trail veterinarian—of the canines who brave the challenges of the Iditarod



Few sporting events attract as much attention, or create as much spectacle, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Each March, despite subzero temperatures and white-out winds, hundreds of dogs and dozens of mushers journey to Anchorage,... Read more

Ada Blackjack

A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

By: Jennifer Niven
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive twenty-five-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman—who had headed to... Read more

Coming Back Alive

The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas

By: Spike Walker
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.



One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk... Read more

Deep Waters

A Memoir of Loss, Alaska Adventure, and Love Rekindled

By: Beth Ann Mathews
Narrated by: Alex Picard
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

In this intimate story of relationship resilience, marine biologist Beth Mathews’s adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. Jim’s radical approach to recovery clashes with Beth’s instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists... Read more