Award Winning Author
Tales from the Territory:
Stories of Southeast Alaska
by Robert Kinerk
Alaskans learn from their remoteness to make do for themselves. They are experts at blazing their own trails. They are also experts at stumbling along those trails and sometimes wandering completely off them. The stories in this book are about Alaskans who stumble and wander, but who also love, and hope, and persevere. Alaskans make their lives adventures. Those adventures often surprise even Alaskans themselves.
I am blown away by this collection of stories. If there was ever a better set-up of life in a small town, I have not seen it. Here are real people, and I walked into their lives long enough to see and smell and hear them
— Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, author
“Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights”
About Robert
Tales from the Territory: Stories of Southeast Alaska is Bob’s first collection of Alaska stories. In compiling it, Bob, who grew up in Ketchikan, drew on his experiences as an Alaskan newspaper reporter, radio announcer, logger, ambulance attendant, bakery-truck driver, grocery-store clerk, and pulp mill employee.