including national parks, monuments, historic sites, and other park areas
Browse below for books on National Park System areas in Alaska, or click for: Denali National Park & Preserve, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

ALASKA'S PARKLANDS: the complete guide. by Nancy Lange Simmerman.
Complete details, maps, photos on 111 state and national parklands and wild rivers with information on 167 other wild areas--terrain, scenery, camping, facilities. Gives site locations, , how to reach them by air, boat, car, or bus; type of scenery, terrain, and weather to expect; outdoor activities available and recommended; history of the area; wildlife to be found., Useful in trip planning including location of public campgrounds, hints on backpacking, boating, keeping warm in the snow. Photos, maps, tables and charts, 336 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-89889-053-9. 1991. Order #: MOUN0865 paper$16.95.

 

DENALI: The Story Behind the Scenery (AK). Buskirk.
Glaciers, mountain climbing, wildlife, park history of Alaska National park. Formerly Mount McKinley. 57 color photos, 48 large-format pages. 1982.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-916122-23-9. 1982. Third printing.  Order #: KCPU0723 paper$ 8.95.

 

 

 

THE DISCOVERY OF GLACIER BAY (1879). by John Muir, its discoverer.
Adventures in a truly Alaskan wild with ice floes, bergs, mountain peaks, Indians, canoe travel. Spending several "icy summers" in Alaska, Muir earned the name "Ice Chief", exploring Glacier Bay and its region. It was a fitting continuation to his involvement with glaciers, for he had developed the glacial origin theory for Yosemite Valley, in spite of the fact that there the glaciers were almost entirely gone. Here at Glacier Bay, no imagination was needed to understand the processes. Reprinted from Century Magazine. Engravings of ice and peaks abound in the book. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
Inventory = in stock in quantity. ISBN-10: 0-89646-045-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-045-4. Order #: VIST0045 paper $3.95.

 

GLACIER BAY: the land and the silence. by Dave Bohn. Foreword by David Brower.
History and nature of Alaska  national monument from earliest explorations by white men of the wild Alaska coast to explorations and surveys including trip by John Muir, prospectors, establishment of the area as a national monument (now a national park and preserve) and changes in the ice front as it expanded and contracted (mainly contracted). Color photographs, maps, appendix of place names, bibliography, 159 pages, index.
Inventory = 6. ISBN: None. 1967. Order #: ALAS1882 paper$7.95.

 

HIKING IN MUIR INLET: Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska. by Carolynn Elder.
There are no roads in this area so unless on a boat or plane, to see it you will hike.. This is a general discussion of what it is like to hike here, the scenes from which glaciers are retreating/have retreated and the new vegetation that is appearing now that they are gone. Natural history and hiking information to this wilderness for day hikes and backcountry camping is given, with special concerns presented such as grizzly bears, melting ice, ice caves, mosquitoes, tides, crossing meltwater streams. Photos, 40 pages.
Inventory = 5. ISBN: 0-9602876-2-0. 1980. Front cover may be scuffed. Order #: ALAS2242 paper$3.95.

THE ICE-AGE HISTORY OF ALASKAN NATIONAL PARKS. by Scott A. Elias.
Focuses on more than 30,000 years of Alaskan prehistory to describe the geology, climate, ancient plant and animal life, plus human presence in Denali, Kenai Fjords, Glacier Bay, and Bering Land Bridge national parks and preserves. Uncovers a time when glaciers shaped the landscape, carving cirques and leaving moraines that dammed rivers to form lakes. With fossils from this period, the landscape of the time is recreated, where bogs and steppe tundra harbored caribou, moose, saber-toothed cats, and mammoths. Photographs, drawings, maps, and charts, 160 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN:1-56098-424-4. 1995. Order #: SMIN2231 paper$17.95.

THE SIERRA CLUB GUIDES TO THE NATIONAL PARKS --PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND ALASKA. edited by James B. Murfin.
Parks included: Crater Lake, Denali, Gates of Arctic, Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, Mt. Rainier, North Cascades, Olympic, Wrangell-St. Elias. Gives facility charts for each park, trial charts indicating length, ascent, degree of difficulty and where to go to get away from crowds, appendix identifying 46 animals and plants commonly found in the parks. 15 maps, including overall, access, and trail maps, 188 color photographs, 15 maps, 400 pages, index.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 0-394-73554-4. 1985. Order #: RAHO2739 paper$16.95.

 

WRANGELL-SAINT ELIAS: International Mountain Wilderness. by by Robert A. Henning, Barbara Olds, & Penny Rennick.
History and nature, mining, mountain climbing, sport fishing of Alaska  park. Diagrams shows retreat of glaciers in Icy Bay. There are views of the volcanoes of the region, the abundant glaciers, of mountaineering across ice fields plus the history of climbing in the area, and memories of the mining town of Kennecott. Color photos, large separate map included, 144 large-format pages, maps. Alaska Geographic, Vol  8. No. 1.
Inventory = 9. ISBN: 0-88240-149-1. 1981. Order #: ALNO6074 paper$9.95.

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List of National Park System areas in Alaska:

Alagnak Wild River
Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area
Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Cape Krusenstern National Monument
Denali National Park & Preserve
Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve
Inupiat Heritage Center
Katmai National Park & Preserve
Kenai Fjords National Park
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
KobukValley National Park
:Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
Noatak National Preserve
Sitka National Historical Park
Wrangell-St/ Elias National Park & Preserve
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

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