Name: Going to Extremes

This is the fourth edition of a work that always has been controversial in Alaska. Yet, it is an important and highly readable classic work that captures a portrait frozen in time of a raw state in turmoil during the oil boom. McGinnis went north to find out if there was anything left of the "last frontier." He found "mind-bending contradictions," as a previous publisher put it--greed, waste, addictions, and racism, among other things, that contrasted with an awesome untamed natural beauty and an honest, open, and independent spirit of the people.

Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins

Travels in Alaska by John Muir

Coming Into the Country by John McPhee

Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley

Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie

Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban

Arctic Homestead by Norma Cobb

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name by Heather Lende

The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed by Andrew Doughty

Around the World in 60 Seconds by Nuseir Yassin

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz

Sky Burial by Xinran

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

Unfathomable City by Rebecca Solnit

Hillerman Country by Tony Hillerman

Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

The Lost Amazon by Wade Davis