For over 25 years Alaska Northwest Books has received calls from individuals from all over the world seeking to share how ONE MAN’S WILDERNESS changed their lives. A new companion documentary, Alone in the Wilderness, is currently airing on PBS stations across the nation, sharing this story with an even wider audience. From LA to New York, Minneapolis to Tampa, people are transported from the bustle of daily life into the vast beauty and solitude of the Alaskan wilderness.

In this sought-after bestseller, author Sam Keith shares the adventures of Alaska pioneer Dick Proenneke, a man who single-handedly built his own cabin and lived off the land for decades. ONE MAN’ WILDERNESS reveals the joys of living simply, at one with surrounding land and wildlife.

Alaska Northwest Books
0-88240-513-6
Softbound, $14.95
224 pages, 50 color photos

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

TO ORDER CALL YOUR LOCAL SALES REP OR CUSTOMER SERVICE AT 800-452-3032 OR YOU CAN EMAIL US AT SALES@GACPC.COM

TO ORDER CALL YOUR LOCAL SALES REP OR CUSTOMER SERVICE AT 800-452-3032 OR YOU CAN EMAIL US AT SALES@GACPC.COM

Hello all—
Happy New Year’s! We hope you made it through the holiday season relatively sane and enjoyed prosperity along the way. You should be seeing our new catalog in the next week and in it you’ll find all our great new titles for Spring ‘05.

By now you may have heard of One Man’s Wilderness, with more than 35,000 copies sold in the past six months, and coverage on more than 100 public television stations across the nation as the companion to the documentary Alone in the Wilderness, this book is sweeping the nation. Also keep your eye on Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City, with its eight-week run on PNBA’s top-15 best-seller list and placement in the top-20 for true-crime on BookScan. Finally, the author of Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man, Doug Fine, has been on a national tour and getting tons of media exposure. We think all three of these books will continue to be great successes in the coming year.

Here’s to a prosperous and safe new year. Thank you all for your continued support.

Regards,

Mike Jones
Dir. Of Sales and Marketing

• Berry Magic (Alaska Northwest Books HB and SB) – Short-listed as choice for “2005 ALSC Media Awards - Best in Children’s Literature” by the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC – a division of the ALA).
  
  
• Big-Enough Anna & Alone Across the Wilderness (Alaska Northwest Books HB and SB) – Featured on nationally syndicated show Calling All Pets put on by Wisconsin Public Radio. Both books were recommended as great gifts for young readers by the show’s host. The show plays in more than 20 states. www.wpr.org/pets/carriage.html
  
  
• Bijaboji: North to Alaska by Oar (Harbour Publishing, HB 1-55017-340-5) – Review in ForeWord in the “Footnotes” Section. “…a rousing, adventurous memoir…”
  
  
• Groucho’s Eyebrows, Kumak’s House, Runaways on the Inside Passage, Seldovia Sam and the Very Large Clam, and Winter Is (Alaska Northwest Books and WestWinds Press) – All received glowing review on www.childrenslit.com
  
  
• Illustrated History of Scotland (Oyster Press, HB 1-932573-01-1) – Review in the Sunday edition of the Statesman Journal’s (Salem, OR) “Arts & Travel” section.
  
  
• Portland Confidential (WestWinds Press, SB 1-55868-793-9) – Half-page reviews with cover images in Portland Police Union newspaper, Exotic Magazine, “Stanford does an excellent job showing how the whole racketeering scheme unraveled when a reporter from the Oregonian, Wally Turner, started peeking through keyholes in Chinatown.”
  
  
• Portland Confidential (WestWinds Press, SB 1-55868-793-9) – In the top-10 Border’s Books and Music Best-Sellers – ahead of Tuesdays with Morrie and My Life, by Bill Clinton – in the Oregonian prior to the week of Christmas.
  
  
• Salt & Pepper at the Pike Place Market (WestWinds Press, HB and SB) – Top-review in the book section of Alaska Airlines Magazine.
  
  
• A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming (Harbour Publishing, SB 1-55017-317-0) – Author and book referenced in the recent Seattle Post-Intelligencer feature article “In the Northwest: Canada’s fish-farm boom is a blow to wild salmon.”
  
  
• Wild Mushrooms (WestWinds Press, SB 1-55868-695-9) – Review and cover image in the Forks Forum (Washington). “You can’t help but drool when you look through the recipes in Wild Mushrooms.”
  
  
• Wild Mushrooms (WestWinds Press, SB 1-55868-695-9) – Full-page review with cover image in ForeWord magazine’s December issue. “…this cookbook is a well-written and tasty intro into a lesser-known corner of the culinary woods and is well suited to anyone with a love of food.”
  
  
• The Winter Walk (Alaska Northwest Books, SB 0-88240-574-8) – Review and cover image in the Northwest Books section of the Statesman Journal (Salem, OR), Sunday edition. “This beautifully written little book tells of the journey toward hope, a journey that ultimately is a test of the human soul.”

AUTHORS & BOOKS

• Les Kerr – Tennessee – Author Les Kerr has been traveling extensively around the South promoting this new book. He has been on numerous radio programs, including NPR affiliate stations, and television programs, including a Fox-TV morning show, as well as done book signings and musical performances at the likes of the Country Music Hall of Fame. He has also been visiting and signing/playing in bookstores throughout the region.
  
  
• Kirsten Dixon – The Winterlake Lodge Cookbook – Author Kirsten Dixon has won the title of “Best Women Chef” in the USA/Gourmand World Cookbook’s “Books in English” series. Congratulations Kirsten!!! www.cookbookfair.com
  
  
• George Humphries – Tennessee – Photographer George Humphries has been on tour in his home state of North Carolina to promote his new book project with author Les Kerr.

SHOWS & CONVENTIONS

• PNBA Spring Trade Show – Portland, OR, March 14-16, 2005 www.pnba.org
  
  
• London Book Fair – London, March 13 – 15 www.lbf-virtual.com.
  

New for Spring 2005, here are some of our first picks! Call us anytime to pre-order any of these titles. We’ll have everything from cooking to kids, and autobiographies to coffee-table works of art. Enjoy!

		Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series #4: Salmon Cynthia Nims WestWinds Press Softbound, 1-55868861-7, $14.95
		First she brought you Crab, and Stone Fruit, then it was Wild Mushrooms . . . What better way to continue this wildly popular series than with Salmon? As with all Cynthia’s books, while they are about regional cuisine, they give options for cooks outside the area as well as helpful purchasing, storage, and cooking tips. With history, recipes, and glorious watercolor illustrations, this is one book no chef should be without.
		Desert Water Photography by Mark Lisk Essay by William Fox Graphic Arts Books Hardbound, 1-55868-85-7, $29.95
		The hydro-miracles of the American deserts are chronicled here in this stunning new book from renowned landscape photographer Mark Lisk and Silver Pen Award winner William Fox. Canyons, arroyos, ravines, chasms, washes and water—they are all here in this beautiful work of art and emotion-provoking imagery.
		One Tough Mother: Success in Life, Business and Apple Pies Gert Boyle with Terry Tymchuk WestWinds Press Hardbound, 1-55868-908-7, $19.95
		When a heart attack claimed Gert Boyle’s husband in 1970, the forty six-year-old housewife and mother of three found herself at the helm of Columbia Sportswear, a small and financially struggling outerwear manufacturer in Portland, Oregon. Today Columbia is the largest skiwear manufacturer in the United States and Gert Boyle has become an icon in her industry—the first woman ever inducted into the International Sporting Goods Hall of Fame. In One Tough Mother, Boyle presents an honest, open, and often irreverent account of her truly remarkable journey from a childhood in Nazi Germany to fame and fortune in America.
		The Misadventures of Sledovia Sam #3: Seldovia Sam and the Wildfire Rescue Susan Woodward Springer Alaska Northwest Books Softbound, 0-88240-601-9, ages 6-10, $6.95
		This exciting series of beginning chapter books follows the energetic and curious Sam on his adventures in beautiful Seldovia, Alaska, where he lives with his parents and dog, Neptune. Humor, family relationships, survival, natural history, and geography are all part of Sam’s “misadventures.” A map and author’s note portray the real Seldovia while lively illustrations help readers to visualize characters and place. A great choice for reluctant readers!