"John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire takes two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska, and combines them into a brisk and engaging biography.John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutiona...
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Old Keb is ninety-five--maybe, he cannot remember--part Tlingit and part Norwegian, and the last canoe carver in his village. When his grandson James is injured in a logging accident, Keb helps him build a canoe, and they travel into the interior of Alaska, evading authorities an...
"Part quest, part rebirth, Heacox's debut novel spins a story of Alaska's Tlingit people and the land, an old man dying, and a young man learning to live." Kirkus Reviews (Starred). Winner: National Outdoor Book Award Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old...