Welcome to the Historical Fiction Online forums: a friendly place to discuss, review and discover historical fiction.
If this is your first visit, please be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You will have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing posts, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
If this is your first visit, please be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You will have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing posts, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Recommendations: Alaska, British Columbia
Recommendations: Alaska, British Columbia
I am trying to find some good nonfiction or fiction to read before and during my trip to the Pacific Northwest. Any suggestions?
- sweetpotatoboy
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: London, UK
[quote=""Telynor""]I am trying to find some good nonfiction or fiction to read before and during my trip to the Pacific Northwest. Any suggestions?[/quote]
Just finished Beyond the Shining Mountains by Doris Shannon. Western BC, fur trading post. Celeste de Blasis wrote The Tiger's Woman that's set in old Seattle and the San Juan Islands. Glory by Janice Young Brooks starts in Seattle and then moves through Skagway and then the Yukon territory.
There's that book that was out last year about the singer who ended up in Seattle. I am drawing an absolute blank on the title/author at this hour of the morning so perhaps someone else can help out.
Just finished Beyond the Shining Mountains by Doris Shannon. Western BC, fur trading post. Celeste de Blasis wrote The Tiger's Woman that's set in old Seattle and the San Juan Islands. Glory by Janice Young Brooks starts in Seattle and then moves through Skagway and then the Yukon territory.
There's that book that was out last year about the singer who ended up in Seattle. I am drawing an absolute blank on the title/author at this hour of the morning so perhaps someone else can help out.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3565
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
I'd recommend Tisha. It's memoir, not fiction, but it reads like fiction. I have also enjoyed Fifty years Below Zero, another memoir by Charles Brown.
If you've never read the Alaska poems of Robert Service, you should try them. Very much like Kipling in rhythm and meter and general style.
And of course, no Alaska reading list is complete without Jack London. Call of the Wild and White Fang deserve a re-read.
If you've never read the Alaska poems of Robert Service, you should try them. Very much like Kipling in rhythm and meter and general style.
And of course, no Alaska reading list is complete without Jack London. Call of the Wild and White Fang deserve a re-read.
- SonjaMarie
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5688
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Vashon, WA
- Contact:
Jealous you're going to my birth place (Alaska) and the home of my best friend (BC).
SM
SM
The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum
My Booksfree Queue
Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
Full List Here: http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... p?p=114965
My Booksfree Queue
Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
Full List Here: http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... p?p=114965
-
- Reader
- Posts: 64
- Joined: February 2010
- Location: Going back in Time
Eagle Song and Sea Runners
For Eagle Song, James Houston, the Canadian, took an actual event where early Euro Americans encountered Native Americans ... slavery and culture of Cedar Salmon ... Doig also based Sea Runners on an actual escape from Russian held Alaska ... for Eagle Song, I suggest viewing the hardcover on Fantastic Fiction rather than judging it by the absurd paperback cover displayed at Amazon.
Hi Chris 
if you want to go waaay back, Sue Harrison did a couple of trilogies set in prehistoric Alaska which I enjoyed years ago
The Ivory Carver Trilogy
Mother Earth Father Sky
My Sister the Moon
Brother Wind
The Storyteller Trilogy
Song of the River
Cry of the Wind
Call Down the Stars

if you want to go waaay back, Sue Harrison did a couple of trilogies set in prehistoric Alaska which I enjoyed years ago
The Ivory Carver Trilogy
Mother Earth Father Sky
My Sister the Moon
Brother Wind
The Storyteller Trilogy
Song of the River
Cry of the Wind
Call Down the Stars
*smacks head*
Almost forgot Heartbroke Bay by Lynn D'Urso.
Almost forgot Heartbroke Bay by Lynn D'Urso.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
-
- Reader
- Posts: 64
- Joined: February 2010
- Location: Going back in Time