This new memoir by renowned wildlife photographer, author, and naturalist Tom Walker shares his adventures living in Alaska for more than five decades. Wild Shots blends natural history with stories about Walker’s wide-ranging forays into the wilderness to photograph animals--beginning as a clueless "cheechako" (newcomer), but ultimately becoming a seasoned old-timer revered by many. Vivid, clear prose beautifully captures the landscape both around his home just outside of Denali ...

"Walker’s writing is an invitation to travel along virtually with the peripatetic lone wolf through the heart of Alaska’s wilderness, an adventure not to be missed.."--Margaret Bauman, author of The Cordova TimesFollow one wolf’s incredible journey 2,600 miles across Alaska and CanadaOffers remarkable insights into one of the most beloved, feared, and mysterious creaturesThe Wanderer is the first book ever to chart a...

A new prime minister is left with a rather big problem created by her father, a former prime minister. She needs help.A friend of her knows who can help her resolve the problem. It is her past lover and the father to her now nineteen-year-old son.Having been identified as 'missing in action' and presumed dead, she is shocked to find out John is still alive despite her father telling her different.He reluctantly agrees but demands something in return that her father ...

Guilt and a desperate need to repent drive the antiheroes in Tom Walker’s dark (and often darkly funny) stories:A gullible journalist falls for the 40-year-old stripper he profiles in a magazine.A faithless husband abandons his family and joins a support group for lost souls.A merciless prosecuting attorney grapples with the suicide of his gay son.An aging misanthrope must make amends to five former victims.An egoistic naval hero is hau...

True story of one mans determination, ingenuity and skill to escape from a hostile country against all odds and not give up until he was free. Tom Walker a British overland travel tour operator working in cooperation with the Turkish tourist office in London found himself trapped in Turkey with a group of 8 tourists in his care during the 1971 Turkish uprising. Martial law had been declared, the army was in control of the country and For bringing scuba diving tourists to Turkey, as leader ...

As reclusive Professor Emeritus George Gordon Bombazine rises at dawn on his seventieth birthday, he plans to kill himself that night. He lives with his old dog Argos; his wife has left him for another professor; his estranged son and sister despises him, and he's been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He knows precisely the time and place he'll suicide, yet hopes that something might happen today to make him want to go on living. As the day progresses, things do happen—sex, love, friendship...

In this dystopian novel set in the 2030s, a man suffering from a gunshot wound is trying to remember what happened to him in the years since Trump got elected.Fimple is an alcoholic psychological counselor suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. As he recovers in the hospital, he tries to reconstruct his past, but can’t recognize the America his country has become.As his memory slowly returns, he realizes the hospital is owned by his half-uncle, a Trump-like corporatist who wants to run for...

•*More than 150 stunning images, featuring the “Big Five”: caribou, Dall sheep, grizzly, moose, and wolf•*Both an educational overview and a tourist-oriented gift book•*Includes all of Alaska’s iconic wildlife speciesFrom grizzlies, Dall sheep, and the elusive wolverine to bald eagles and the common ground squirrel, photographer Tom Walker displays birds, mammals, and more from work that spans four decades. This is a “Best of” collection from a celebrated Alaskan writ...

WalkerBy: Tom WalkerIn this heartwarming historical educational piece, Tom Walker gives readers a glimpse into the world of public special education, with its many rewards and challenges. He shares insight into the way it grew via trial and error – and a lot of patience, compassion, and good humor, from its infancy in the 1970s up through the 1990s.When Walker started teaching, he began writing down funny things that happened in the classroom. One day, he was reading...

This is not fiction. This is the true story of how a former New York City Police Captain of Detectives used his extensive knowledge of the deductive methods of Sherlock Holmes to provide the FBI and other agencies with break the case clues to some of the most baffling and horrific criminal cases of the last half century.Not only does the author provide break the case clues to The Unabomber, BTK Killer, and Son of Sam cases, but on the Anthrax Killer case he has uncovered a secret c...

CLICK HERE to download the first two chapters from The Seventymile Kid* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinley—setting the record straight* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley's first ascent* Features archival photographs, including rare and never-before-published imagesThe Seventymile...

A fourth-generation New York cop whose great-grandfather was on the force during the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863, and author of Fort Apache: New Yorks Most Violent Precinct, Tom Walker delivers another eye-opening look at the life of being a cop in the Bronx. In this ambitious novel based on events from his familys history, Hugh Ryan, a proud third-generation New York police officer, runs up against the most difficult challenge of his career: battling the institution that has sustained h...