Purely Alaska

Inside you'll find 32 stories as diverse and far flung as Alaska itself. A village girl discovers a surprising new world at a boarding school hundreds of miles from home.

A mother tries to steer her son toward college but he just wants to be a salty fisherman like his dad. An after-work snowmachine outing turns treacherous.

A revered Iñupiaq elder recalls a traumatic 1930s reindeer drive across extreme northern Alaska. A young man struggles against powerful addictions. An outsider who arrives...