Weaving together personal experience and wilderness lore, this poetic journey through Alaska and Alaskan history is “a potent map of love and loss and how we find our way back home through the landscape of the heart” (Terry Tempest Williams).

Disappearance: A Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes

Biographies & Memoirs

NICKERSON, Sheila

Historical

Mariner Books

A lyrical meditation on the meaning of loss amid the wilderness landscape of Alaska's high latitudes tracks the incidence of disappearance--hikers, explorers, and others--along with the losses of the culture of the native peoples and natural resources of Alaska. Tour.

Disappearance: A Map

History

Americas

DOUBLEDAY

Songs of the Pine Wife

Consortium Book Sales

Sheila Nickerson's latest work, Blackbird Flying, defies categories. Grounded in the surprising details of family memoir, it expands to an exploration of mystery, "where solid is not solid and the shore is never certain," and lament unfurls to celebration.
Sheila has published widely in poetry and creative non-fiction. She spent twenty-seven years in Juneau, Alaska, where she served as Poet Laureate and taught creative writing in public schools, universities, and prisons. Now a resident of Bellingham, Washington, she recalls the migratory winters she has spent on the coast of South Carolina.

Blackbird Flying

fuze publishing

A gripping true account of Tookoolito, a thirty-four-year old Inuit woman and translator whose extraordinary survival skills saved all nineteen members of the ill-fated Polaris expedition in 1871, vibrantly recreates the life of this woman referred to as the "Sacagawea of the Ice." 25,000 first printing.

Midnight to the North: The Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition

Community & Culture

Tarcher

In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those with the greatest success found that the fastest way to travel was on four legs―using a team of hardworking sledge dogs. Harnessed to the Pole follows the adventures of eight American explorers and their dog teams, starting with Elisha Kent Kane and ending with Robert Peary, controversial claimant of the title of first to reach the North Pole. While history has long forgotten these “little camels of the north,” Sheila Nickerson reveals how critical dogs were to the Arctic conquest. Besides providing transportation in extreme conditions, sledge dogs protected against wolves and polar bears, helped in hunting, found their way through storms, and provided warmth in extreme cold. They also faced rough handling, starvation, and the possibility of being left behind as expeditions plunged ahead. Harnessed to the Pole is an extraordinary―and unflinching―look at the dogs that raced to the top of the world.

Harnessed to the Pole: Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909

University of Alaska Press

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