Bears A Year In The Life by Matthias Breiter
“What good is a bear?” The author opens the book with this thought-provoking question and proceeds to answer it by taking us through an entire year in the lives of three bear species found in North America — the brown, the black and the polar bear.

Complete Birds Of North America by Jonathan Alderfer, editor
Essential, comprehensive and easy to use. This book covers 962 birds recorded in North America. Featuring 4000 illustrations, hunderds of maps and 150 photographs.

Death in the Grizzly Maze by Mike Lapinski
Death in the Grizzly Maze is the compelling account of Timothy Treadwell’s intense life and dramatic death. Author Mike Lapinski chronicles Treadwell’s rise from self-described alcoholic loser to popular grizzly-bear advocate.

March Of The Penguins by Luc Jacquet
Enjoy the film? Read this book. Learn more about the emperor penguins’ extraordinary journey in this official companion book to the major motion picture.

Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon by Rebecca L. Grambo and photographs by Daniel J. Cox
Throughout history, wolves have fascinated, inspired and terrified people around the world. Fierce, loyal, tribal and intelligent, these animals are the subject of this intimate portrait.

Klondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey by Merrill Denison
A biography of Klondike Mike Mahoney whose feats of endurance and strength made him a legend in his own lifetime. He was in Dawson, Fairbanks and Nome and knew both the Chilkoot and White Passes.

Paddling the Yukon River and its Tributaries by Dan Maclean
Paddling the Yukon and its Tributaries covers more than 4,000 miles of watery trail.

The Mad Trapper of Rat River by Dick North
They called it “The Arctic Circle War.” It was a manhunt the likes of which we will never see again.

Three Rivers: The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness (by Margaret Atwood, John Ralston Saul, Courtney Milne, Juri Peepre, Sarah Locke and Others)
is a gorgeous coffee-table book about a wilderness area so vast and so crucial to planetary survival it defies comprehension.

The Yukoner Magazine #30 by Sam Holloway, editor
Dianne Green, the publisher, and Sam Holloway, editor/printer, have been producing the magazine since July of 1996 under what some might call unique conditions.

Cheyenne Rising Sun by John A. Kuri
A collection of dramatically gripping stories of the Northern Cheyenne great chief, Morning Star, and his grandson, Ted Rising Sun.

Furious Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don’t Look Like One Two Three
by Drew Hayden Taylor
Way back when, I never thought there would be book #1, let alone a third. What you are about to read are the best of the articles I have written over the past 3 years.

Long Ago Sewing We Will Remember by Judy Thompson and Ingrid Kritsch
Starting in February 2000 more than forty seamstresses and many others in Gwich’in communities and two museums took part in a project to make five outfits that were reproductions of caribou hide garments.

Standing Bear Is a Person by Stephen Dando-Collins
In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being.

Who Are Canada’ Aboriginal Peoples? Edited by Paul L. A. H. Chartrand
The authors canvass a wide range of issues regarding Aboriginal legal policy in Canada.

Little Bear’s Special Wish by Gillian Lobel
Little Bear has a special wish. He wants to find the best present in the world for his mommy.

Me & Martha Black by Margriet Ruurs
Melanie White has always liked history, but she certainly doesn’t believe in ghosts. When a voice from the past begins to haunt her, she soon discovers wisdom in her words.

Native North American Foods and Recipes by Kathryn Smithyman and Bobbie Kalman
Readers will be fascinated by the wide variety of foods that the early Native peoples hunted, gathered, and grew. They will also be amazed to learn that many of the foods they now eat were introduced by Native North Americans.

Seldovia Sam & the Blueberry Bear by Susan Springer Illustrated by Amy Meissner
For an end-of-summer adventure, Sam goes blueberry picking with his mom and best friend, Billy. He learns the hard way about safety and respect for wildlife when he has a face-to-face encounter with a bear cub, its protective mom close behind.

Ten Rowdy Ravens by Susan Ewing
The fun begins when ten rowdy ravens set out on a rambunctious fly-about. They play tricks, get into mischief, find themselves in sticky situations, and make general mayhem.

We are very excited to be switching to this blog presentation and will be issuing a newsletter at least once a month.

It is currently a very busy month in Whitehorse with the following events currently running or upcoming: Yukon Quest, Sourdough Rendezvous Festival, Frostbite Music Festival and various other concerts and events in the Whitehorse area and of course the 2006 Winter Olympic Games.

We in the Yukon love to keep ourselves busy in the winter so cabin fever doesn’t set in!

We have also made some layout and menu changes to Yukonbooks.com that are worth having a look at.

As well, check out our new Yukon Maps & Guides area with our new Yukon Topo Map Site which is now online and we are very excited about.

We invite you to browse our new arrivals: in the posts below, on our New Arrivals page or pick your favorite Category from the right hand menu.

We hope you are having a great winter wherever you may be.

We welcome your questions, comments and suggestions at editor@yukonbooks.com

Ken Searcy - Webmaster
YukonBooks.com

Lonely Planet Unpacked by Tony Wheeler et al
Every traveller has a horror story to tell: lost luggage, bad weather, illness or worse. In this lively collection of travel disaster tales, Lonely Planet writers - Tony Wheeler among them - share their worst moments of life on the road.

On Any Wednesday (Or Tuesday, or Thursday, or…) by Max Burns
A collection of five motorcycle adventures. Each story catches Max—sometimes alone, sometimes with friends—chasing the trails and sparsely-travelled backroads of northeastern Ontario and northwestern Québec, typically pursued by a fast-approaching winter.

Reading the River by Myrna Kostash with Duane Burton
This is the story of the North Saskatchewan River in multiple voices, including writing by famous names and those less familiar, from its rise in the Rocky Mountains to its exit into Lake Winnipeg.

The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer by Eric Hansen
From the Maldives to Sacramento, from Cannes to Washington Heights, Eric Hansen has a way of getting himself into the most sacred ceremonies and the most candid conversations.

The Dolphin’s Tooth by Bruce Kirkby
Stuck in an engineer’s cubicle, dutifully beginning the responsible adult life he was raised to undertake, Kirkby is tormented by doubts and boredom. In a fit of rebellion, he quits his job to bicycle the Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan. He is twenty-two and absolutely clueless.

Alaska Ports of Call 2006 by Sue Kernaghan, Don Pitcher & Bill Sherwonit
Provides information on cruises and what to do at your ports of call in Alaska.
Useful information for first time cruisers.

Fodor’s Alaska 2006 by Heidi Leigh Johansen, editor
Information on how to get to Alaska and what to expect when you arrive.
Travel tips and maps. Suggested itineraries.

The Golden Circle by Bob Adkins
The Golden Circle is a collection of over 100 full color photographs of the scenic beauty, wildlife, and communities of the Gold Rush Country in northern Southeast Alaska, southern Yukon Territory, and northern British Columbia.

Western USA, Western Canada map by Michelin
Michelin maps show features in shaded relief maps with some spot elevations. The roads are high lighted, with road numbers and distances well marked.

Jack London - The Pursuit Of A Dream by Ruth Franchere
Highly readable biography of the acclaimed writer of The Call of the Wild and other wilderness adventure books.

Ninety Years North: The Story of The Yukon Electrical Company Limited by Allen E. Wright and Flo Whyard
Corporate history of the Yukon Electrical Company Limited, Whitehorse.

Worth Repeating - A Literary Resurrection. 1948-1994 by Pierre Berton
This glorious miscellany of many of Pierre Berton’s most sparkling pieces brings back lost treasures from his years as a journalist covering Canada and the world.

Yukon Cookbook : A Selection of Recipes from Yukon Sourdoughs by Leona Kananen
The food of the Yukon Sourdough, from moose roast, pemmican and Klondike grayling to gold nugget bannock, fireweed spinach and kinnikinnick tea.

After two back to back elections, territorial and municipal, the city is busying itself for the upcoming Canada Winter Games.

Recently, a local gallery featured some wonderful raven photography by local photographer Vince Federoff. He dedicated this exhibition to the memory of the late John Hatch. We invite you to have a look at John’s raven photos in the John Hatch Gallery. Vince and John were good friends and you can see the omnipresent Yukon raven was a favorite subject of both photographers.

Also, for all of you Yukon Quest fans, Frank Turner has announced he will be coming out of retirement to race again.

On to what’s new…

Yukon Topographic Maps: We are all breathing a collective sigh of relief since the Canada Map Office reversed a decision to stop printing topographic maps. This means we will be able to continue providing Yukon topo maps as we always have. Visit our topographic map site to find any Yukon maps you may need.

2007 Calendars: Make sure to browse our varied selection of 2007 calendars as we near the end of 2006.

As well, we invite you to visit our website at macsbooks.ca and browse the new, online version of our Books For Everybody catalog and have a look at the new titles available in all our book categories to give you some ideas for the upcoming Christmas season.

We invite you to browse our new arrivals: in the posts below, on our New Arrivals page or pick your favorite Category from the right hand menu.

We welcome your questions, comments and suggestions at editor@yukonbooks.com

Ken Searcy - Webmaster
YukonBooks.com