Description: An account of Alaska and Alaskans. Woven into the story is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush.

Description: This is a controversial read – the first question you will be asked is if the author/researcher has an agenda. Probably, you won’t find any surprises within the pages, but no doubt the discussion will be a lively one.

Billionaire Wilderness looks at the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy and shares how today’s richest people are using the natural environment – seemingly, to solve the existential dilemmas they face.

Description: Originally published in 1963, Stewart Udall left behind an environmental legacy.  Having served as secretary of the interior under both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was successful as both an institutional leader and making obvious issues that relate to the greater good. 

Description: This month we are reading Simon Winchester’s, Land. Whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city – is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything.