The Prescription for Adventure book series is a group of non-fiction books that depict life — and all of its grand adventures — in Alaska, the Last Frontier. Written by Naomi Gaede-Penner, these books are told from the perspective of various family members across the generations, beginning in 1955.
If you're an educator, you'll get up close and learn about Alaska history. If you're a visitor to Alaska, you'll be able to identify landmarks on your trip or tour to Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula, Yukon River, Seward, or Seldovia. Or if you love adventure, then fasten your seatbelt for some great Alaska adventures!
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Prescription for Adventure: Bush Pilot Doctor brings to life Doc Gaede's (my father's) supper table storytelling. His flying, hunting, and medical adventures are set against a land of tundra, dogsleds, 60oF below, midnight sun, and the legendary Yukon River. Find out more...
- Read three chapters for free
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- Check out the Alaska Unit Study Guide that accompanies the book
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In From Kansas Wheat Fields to Alaska Tundra: A Mennonite Family Finds Home, I answer the question, "What is the prescription for finding home in Alaska?" Take one young Mennonite girl and transplant her from the flat-land prairies of Kansas. Give her village potlatches, school in a Quonset hut, the fragrance of wood smoke, Native friends, a doctor-daddy who creates hunting tales and medical adventures with a bush plane, a mother who makes the tastiest moose roasts and has the grit to be a homesteader, and throw in a batch of siblings.
Weave into her journey the perspectives of her family members, and have them face the lack of conveniences, isolation from extended family, freezing temperatures, and unknown hardships. Mix all these together with an attitude of humor, ingenuity, optimism, and sense of adventure! Then find out who really does find home. Lean more...
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In 'A' is for Alaska: Teacher to the Territory, Anna Bortel, my school teacher, gives her prescription for adventure. Just as the Alaska spawning salmon swim upstream, so did Anna when marriage and motherhood eluded her. In 1954, this young school teacher drove up the Alaska-Canada Highway from Ohio to Valdez, where snow was measured in feet. After three years, she pushed further north to an isolated Athabascan village along the Yukon River. Teaching and living in drafty Quonset huts with freezing oil lines at 50 below zero added to her teaching rigors.
You'll smile, laugh, and shake your head in amazement as you read these heartwarming, inspiring, and captivating stories of teaching in the Territory of Alaska. (This is Part I of her story. Part II will be available in later 2012.) Find out more...
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- Learn more about Anna on a DVD
- Download a free Discussion Guide
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The Alaska Unit Student Guide (& Text), is ideal for children who need an independent study or parents who need homeschooling curriculum. It meets the standards for semester-credit Alaska history and is adaptable for students from grade school through high school. Learn more...
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- See sample assignments
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The Three Boys is a collection of short stories about my children's father, Bryan, and his two brothers. The stories begin in Kansas with threatening dust rollers, slimy stock tanks, and an elusive pony. It continues with humorous accounts that honor Bryan, his mother, and his father. This book offers an example of how to put together your own personal stories for family enjoyment. Learn more...