Book List
This list of publications is fairly comprehensive. We are familiar with each title and can recommend any one of them as informative reading if you are interested in learning more about the natural and cultural history of the Yukon.
GENERAL:
Yukon – A Wilder Place by Fritz Mueller and Teresa Earle, Greystone Books 2011
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
The Boreal Herbal – Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North, by Beverely Gray, 2010
The Boreal Gourmet, Adventures in Northern Cooking by Michele Genest, Harbour Publishing, 2010
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
A Naturalists Guide to the Arctic By E.C.Pielou. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago.1994
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 – A Wilder Place, by Fritz Mueller, 2010
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
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
The Living Tundra – Studies in Polar Research By YU.I. Chernov. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1985
Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez. Bantam Books. 1986
Arctic Exodus- The Last Great Trail Drive, by Dick North.Toronto: MacMillan of Canada.1991.
Caribou and the Barrenlands, by George Calef . CARC. Ottawa. Firefly Books Ltd Toronto. 1981
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.
CULTURAL HISTORY (specifically)
Whitehorse – An Illustrated History by Helene Dobrowlsky & Linda Johnson, City of Whitehorse 2013
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
The Lost Patrol, by Dick North. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. 1978
A Whaler & Trader in the Arctic – My Life With the Bowhead, by Arthur James Allen. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co. 1978
Of Whales, Ice & Men, by John Bockstoce
FIELD GUIDES:
BIRDS:
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
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
PLANTS:
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
MAMMALS:
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