alaska

Watch as scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey investigate and explore Alaska's rivers of ice. Learn about the distribution of the world's glaciers, the formation of glacier ice, the glacier ecosystem, the role glaciers play in global sea level change, and the features produced by glacier erosion and deposition.

Investigates the death of Christopher McCandless who hiked into the Alaskan wilderness and was never seen alive again.

The wooden animals in a totem pole spring to life one night and fall into an argument over what order in which to stack themselves again.

Contains profiles and photographs of children who went to the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Explores the work of the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, where young, orphaned sea otters are cared for at the aquarium marine animal hospital.

In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.

In 1920s Alaska, when five-year-old Bo and her two adoptive fathers move to Iditarod Creek to work at a new gold mine, Bo feels homesick until she realizes there is friendship to be found everywhere--and Iditarod Creek may hold some surprises for her already unconventional family.

The sister of Chris McCandless, the man whose life inspired Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," writes about her perspective on Chris's decision to forsake possessions and family in order to live in the Alaskan wilderness, revealing the truth of their sometimes violent home life with parents keeping secrets about second families which ultimately drove Chris to find a different way of life.

Disaster strikes while Tom and his father are kayaking in Alaska's Prince William Sound, stranding Tom alone on a remote island with just a small emergency kit.

Shares the story of Granite, a dog raised by Susan Butcher to become the leader of her sled dog team, discussing his weakness as a puppy, the potential she nurtured in him, the injury and illness that nearly killed the dog, and his heroic feat in leading Susan and the team through a blizzard to victory in the Iditarod race.