Posts by Epicenter Press
Father of the Iditarod, by Lew Freedman
Meet rugged, independent, determined, and hard-working Joe Redington, Father of the Iditarod (302 pages), a man who found his destiny in Alaska. In an inspirational biography, Lew Freedman chronicles Redington’s birth on the Chisholm Trail and his boyhood in the Depression–homeless, motherless, roaming the country looking for work. Alaska was his rebirth in 1948. On…
Read MoreBird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun, by Velma Wallis
In her spellbinding second book, Bird Girl and the Man who Followed the Sun (224 pages) award-winning author Velma Wallis interweaves two classic Athabaskan legends set in ancient central Alaska. This is the story of two rebels who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure. Readers will…
Read MoreStrange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon, by Ed Ferrell
From the pages of early-day northern newspapers comes a startling collection of accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: Mammoths discovered frozen whole in the icy grip of a glacier. A tropical valley hidden deep in the wilderness. Sea serpents sighted off the Bering Sea Coast. A ghostly maiden’s endless search for the young miner…
Read MoreViews: Seattle and the Puget Sound
These views of Seattle and Puget Sound were all produced by Seattle area photographers who captured perfect moments in time through the lens of a camera. Featuring city and landscape photographs from Bill Brookster, Dan Carrow, John S. Chao, Adrienne DeLiso, Joe Faulkner, Neal Herbert, Chris Jacobson, S.H. Marti, Joe Poehlman, and John Rizzo. Their…
Read MoreIditarod Classics, by Lew Freedman
Blinding blizzards. Freezing wind. Paralyzing cold temperatures. Iditarod Classics by Lew Freedman (136 pages) is the stunning record of the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race; a race across the nation’s most forbidding, demanding, and dangerous territory. Competitors must be resourceful, rugged, and resilient. Often they must make life and death choices. These are the…
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