Recommended Reading List

This is not a comprehensive list of all of the books available on the natural and cultural history of the Yukon. It does however include books that we are familar with and recommend as informative reading. Many are now out of print, but can still be found at the ABEBooks.com network.

General:

Three Rivers - The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness by Sarah Locke, Juri Peepre & others; Harbour Publishing 2004

Wild Rivers of the Yukon's Peel Watershed - A Travellers Guide by Juri Peepre & Sarah Locke; 2008

Yukon's Tombstone Range and Blackstone Uplands Edited by Sarah Locke; Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Yukon Chapter, 2000

Yukon Wild - Natural Regions of the Yukon, CPAWS, 1995

Exploring the Alaska-Yukon Border Country, by John Page & Jill De La Hunt. Alaska Natural History Association. Minocqua WI North Word Press. 1994

The Lost Whole Moose Catalogue - A Yukon Way of Knowledge. Whitehorse: Lost Moose Publishing. 1991

After the Ice Age - The Return of Life to Glaciated North America. by E,C. Pielou. The University of Chicago Press. 1991

The World of Northern Evergreens by E.C. Pielou Cornell University Press 1988

Backcountry Bear Basics by Dave Smith, Greystone Books Vancouver, 1997

A Beast the Colour of Winter- The Mountain Goat Observed. By Douglas H. Chadwick. Sierra Club Books San Francisco. 1983

The Yukon by Pat and Baiba Morrow, Firefly Books, 1997

Yukon - Spellbound Under Northern Skies, by Theo Allofs. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing Ltd. 1995

Yukon - Colour of the Land, by Richard Hartmier. Whitehorse: Lost Moose Publishing. 1995

Yukon by Northern Light, by Wayne Towriss. Whitehorse: Studio North. 1992

Tatshenshini - River Wild, Vancouver: Raincoast Books. 1993

Tatshenshini Wilderness Quest and Other River Adventures , by Ken Madsen. Whitehorse: Primrose Publishing. 1991

Wild Rivers, Wild Lands by Ken Madsen, Lost Moose Publishing, 1996

Paddling in the Yukon by Ken Madsen, Primrose Publishing, 1996

Cultural History

Part of Land Part of Water, by Catharine McClelland, Douglas and McIntyre., Vancouver and Toronto, 1987

Reading Voices - Oral & Written Interpretations of the Yukon's Past, by Julie Cruikshank. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.1991

Life Lived Like A Story - Life Stories of Three Yukon Elders, Edited by Julie Cruikshank. University of Nebraska Press. 1990

Atlin's Gold by Peter Steele. Cautlin Press, Prince Goerge 1995

Atlin-the Story of British Columbia's Last Gold Rush by Christine France Dickinson, Diane Solie Smith. Atlin Historical Society. Atlin 1995

Taku-The Heart of North America's Last Great Wilderness by Allison Mitchan. Lancelot Press 1993

Law of the Yukon - A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police of the Yukon, by Helene Dobrowolsky. Whitehorse Lost Moose Publishing. 1995

Field Guides:

Golden Guide to Birds of North America. By Chandler S. Robbins, Bertel Bruun and Herbert S. Zim. Golden Press, New York. 1983

Birds of North America. National Geographic Society. Mosses Lichens & Ferns of Northwest North America, by D. Vitt, J. Marsh & R. Bovey. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publ.1988

Wildflowers of the Yukon by John Trelawny. Gray's Pub.Ltd. Sidney, BC. 1983

Harvesting the Northern Wild, by Marilyn Walker. Yellowknife: Outcrop Ltd. 1984

Plants of Northern British Columbia, by Mackinnon, Pojar & Coupe. Vancouver/Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing. 1992

The Birders Handbook- a Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds- the Essential Companion to your Identification Guide. by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin and Darryl Wheye. Pub. by Simon & Schuster Inc. 1998

A Field Guide to the Mammals of America-north of Mexico by W.H. Burt and R.P. Grossenheider. Peterson Guide. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston,1976

Northern Yukon-based Trips:

A Naturalists Guide to the Arctic By E.C.Pielou. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago.1994

Western Arctic Travel Guide, by Darielle Talarico. Inuvik: Arctic Vision. 1994

Arctic Exodus- The Last Great Trail Drive, by Dick North.Toronto: MacMillan of Canada.1991.

Of Whales, Ice & Men, by John Bockstoce

A Whaler & Trader in the Arctic - My Life With the Bowhead, by Arthur James Allen. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co. 1978

Caribou and the Barrenlands, by George Calef . CARC. Ottawa. Firefly Books Ltd Toronto. 1981

The Lost Patrol, by Dick North. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. 1978

Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez. Bantam Books. 1986

The Living Tundra - Studies in Polar Research By YU.I. Chernov. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1985

Interior Alaska- A Journey Through Time. Eds R.M. Thorson, J.S. Aigner, R. Dale and M.L. Guthrie, W.S. Schneider, R.K. Nelson. The Alaska Geographic Society. Anchorage, 1986.

Creative Books:

The New Diary, Tristine Rainer,J.P.Tarcher, Inc. Los Angeles. 1978

The Artists Way, Julia Cameron, J.P.Tarcher, Inc. Los Angeles. 1992

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Natalie Goldberg, Shambala, 1986

Bird by Bird, Anne Lamot, Pantheon, 1994

If you Want to Write, Brenda Ueland. Greywolf Press, 1987

Ways of Seeing, John Berger, BBC, 1972

The Creative Spirit, D. Goleman, P. Kaufman, M. Ray, (PBS companion) Penguin. 1992

Drawing on the Artist Within, Simon, Inc., 1986

Drawing on the Right side of the Brain, Betty Edwards, J.P.Tarcher, Inc. Los Angeles. 1979

Learning by Heart, C. Kent and J. Stewart. Bantham Books. 1992