Trespassing is a highly-entertaining narrative of Ken Ilgunas's 1,900 mile-long hike along the planned route of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Ilgunas had grown tired of washing dishes for oil workers near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and was concerned with the XL's potential (and highly debated) impact on the environment. More, Ilgunas was interested in the bigger picture that the XL might exemplify: an addiction to cheap oil, without regard to what the Pipeline might mean for the environment (as well as how the XL might symbolize a broader systemic indifference to the...

When author James Campbell’s cousin, Heimo Korth, invited him to help him build a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, he jumped at the chance. But Campbell decided not to go alone: he took his 15-year old daughter, Aidan, with him. He had been promising her he would take her to Alaska for years, and thought that she was now old enough, and that the experience would be a good one. After two trips to the Korths’, Campbell and Aidan returned to Alaska for a third trip, this time backpacking...

Island of the Lost is the incredible true story of the survival and grit of the small crew of the schooner Grafton, which shipwrecked on the sub-antarctic Auckland Island south of New Zealand in January, 1864. The crew of 5 resourced teamwork and ingenuity to survive a year and a half--including two winters--in the harsh and austere conditions. Keys to their survival included the exceptional resourcefulness of Francois Edouard Raynal, whose impressively broad base of practical and technical knowledge led to their preservation and survival, by enabling the crew...