As we all sit at home social-distancing, reading has been our team’s preferred pastime. Below we’ve compiled a list with our team and Arctic Encounter friends of favorite books we hoped to share with you.

 In no particular order, here’s the list of our Top 10 Favorite Arctic-Inspired Books: 

Gift of the Whale: The Inupiat Bowhead Hunt, a Sacred Tradition

By Bill Hess

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

By Jennifer Niven

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People

By Willie Hensley 

Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir

By Ernestine Hays

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir

By Ernestine Hayes

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

By Annie Boochever with roy Peratrovich Jr.

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

By Velma Wallis

The Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak, Alaska

By Edwin Hall, Jr.

The Whales, They Give Themselves: Conversations with Harry Brower. Sr.

By Harry Brower, Sr. with Karen Brewster

Nunamiut: Among Alaska’s Inland Eskimos

By Helge Ingstad

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