Larry Kaniut
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Anyone who has attended an American public high school can identify with The B.G. It is written in three parts: school year, suicide, and abuse of teenagers. Part one portrays a normal year in high school, following some students and their attendant tribulations and triumphs. The second part deals with two young women who have never been loved...both Tori and Dawn consider suicide. Years later some of the teens in the first part attend a class reunion...
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Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye. Danger Stalks the Land relates gripping episodes of animal attacks, avalanches, aircraft disasters, fishing, hunting, and skiing accidents, and chronicles risky climbs and reckless mountaineering amid...
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Sophisticate Gabrielle arranged a charter flight to Nulato, a few hours northwest of Anchorage. Photographing and writing about wolves was her mission. On her return trip the pilot, Lane Coverall, encounters engine trouble, the two are forced to land in the frozen wilderness. They engaged in their immediate survival, hoped for rescue, and prepared for the worst, finding food and staying warm.
Lane discovered a trap line trail and eventual rescue....
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Heavenly Rose is the biography of Pamela Diane Timmons Kaniut, adored wife of famous Alaskan author Larry Kaniut. When Pamela's health deteriorated, Larry was motivated to compile memories and accolades from family, friends, and neighbors hoping to encourage her through the dark moments. He had no idea at the time that the project would last for several decades. What was initially created to uplift one woman became inspirational to many others.
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Just as travel and danger walk hand in hand in the Far North, Swallowed Alive, volume 2, follows in the footsteps of Swallowed Alive, volume 1, presenting stories of misadventure in the arms of Mistress Alaska. Danger is but a whisper away from those who travel Alaska's trails. And danger never falters in her efforts to unseat man.
Stories of crevasses; dog team, river and ATV travel; bigfoot; trapping; hiking; fighting marlin; bear, bird, mouse,...
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Stationed in Rome, Brachan is dispatched on military assignment to Jerusalem to monitor and deal with a potential threat. Upon investigating allegations of a local baptizing menace, he dismisses the Baptizer John as a creditable risk to the empire. However, Brachan's extensive spy network identifies a Nazarene named Jesus who seems more dangerous than the Baptizer. After witnessing numerous events that leave him deeply troubled, Brachan's mission...
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“Swallowed Alive, Fighting for Life in Alaska” chronicles forty-two spine-tingling misadventures of mayhem at the mercy of Mother Nature. Gathered from personal interviews and media research in the wildest reaches of Alaska, volume one contains stories like two men freezing atop airplane floats as their plane rests upside down in a lake; a kayaker nailed by a calving glacier; river runners misreading the river's water, and a snowboarder disappears...