"North to the Future"
| TITLE | DETAILS |
| James Wickersham, U. S. District Judge of Alaska: Transcripts of Diaries 1-13, January 1, 1900-February 13, 1908 | Wickersham, James., transcribed by Mary Anne Slemmons, (Juneau: Alaska State Library, 2000), 382 pp., unbound, P. O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571. No longer available. Transcribed from original diaries held in the Alaska Historical Collections, these are the first thirteen of 47 diaries recording the life and career of Alaska's first District Judge. Included are his attempt to scale Mount McKinley and other adventures described in his 1938 book Old Yukon: Tales-Trails-and Trials. |
| Jewel on the Yukon: Eagle City | Scott, Elva R. (Eagle: Eagle Historical Society & Museums, 1997), 184 pp., paper, ISBN 0965718808. LC 97-224830. A collection of essays on this Yukon River city. |
| Jewel: Chasing Down the Dawn | by Jewel Kilcher (New York: Harper Entertainment, c2000), 142 pp., cloth, ISBN 0060192003, or paper, ISBN 0061051403, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. Recording artist chronicles her life in Alaska and her journey to the world's stage. |
| Jon van Zyle's Alaska Sketchbook: Four Seasons in the Far North | Van Zyle, Jon. (Fairbanks: Epicenter Press, 1998), 64 pp., cloth,x ISBN0945397658, P.O. Box 82368, Kenmore, WA 98028. More than forty paintings, sketches, drawings, notes, diary entries, and personal stories offer an intimate look at a year in Alaska through the artist's eyes. |
| Jose Narvaez: the Forgotten Explorer: Including His Narrative of a Voyage on the Northwest Coast in 1788 | McDowell, Jim. (Spokane, Wash.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1998), 189 pp., cloth, ISBN087062265X, P.O. Box 14707, Spokane, WA 99214. This young navigator was the first Spaniard to reconnoiter a functioning Russian fur trading outpost in the North Pacific, and the first European to probe San Juan de Fuca Strait, sail across Georgia Strait, explore its islands, and discover the future site of Vancouver, B.C. |
| Joseph Baker: Lieutenant on the Vancouver Expedition, British Naval Officer for whom Mt. Baker was Named | Wing, Robert C.(Seattle: Gray Beard, 1992), 120 p., cloth, ISBN 0933686021, (available from the author at 2217 142nd Ave., KPS, Lakebay, WA 98349). LC92-07372. |
| Journal of an Arctic Odyssey, 1996 | Turley, Barbara. / Auke Bay, AK: AK Productions, c1996, 27p, (Box 21-1134, Auke Bay 99821-1134). wln97-047278. The Turleys tell how they planned for and then hiked from the Arctic Ocean to the Brooks range through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
| Journals of Captain James Cook | Cook, James., edited by John C. Beaglehole (Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer in association with Hordern House, 1999) four volumes plus a portfolio of charts and views, ISBN 0851157440, P.O. Box 41026, Rochester NY 14604-4126. Reissued by arrangement with its original publisher, the Hakluyt Society, this indexed and annotated edition of Cook's three voyages has long been out of print. Only the third voyage, published here in two volumes totaling more than 1600 pages, passed through Alaskan waters. |
| Journey Down the Line: Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline | by Robert Douglas Mead. |
| Juneau | Alaska Geographic Vol. 17, Number 2, 1990 |
| Just East of Sundown: the Queen Charlotte Islands | Lillard, Charles. (Victoria, B.C.: Horsdal & Schubart, c1995), 180 p., ISBN 0920663346, 425 Simcoe St., Suite 623, Victoria, BC V8V 4T3 CANADA. History and description of Queen Charlottes. LC 95225883. |
