Books
Beginning with his award-winning Alaska Blues – A Fisherman’s Journal in 1975 (and still in print!) Upton has chronicled life and culture of Alaska and the Northwest Coast for almost 50 years. His most recent book is Young Men Go North – An Alaska Fishing Memoir.
Alaska Blues
Upton’s award-winning day by day journal with many photographs of a long season operating a small salmon boat in Alaska. Hailed as a classic and still regularly reprinted after almost 50 years.
Bering Sea Blues
Upton’s account as a crewman in the 1971 king crab season in the Bering Sea including a harrowing winter journey up the Inside Passage.
Pocket Guide to Alaska Cruise Ports
3.75” x 5.5” with many color photographs, maps, excursion lists but most of all colorful anecdotes about the ports of Southeast Alaska and the Inside Passage.
Runaways On The Inside Passage
Young adult fiction of 12-year old twins, abandoned by their mother, enlisting the help of an 80-year old fisherman with failing health to take them to their father in a remote Alaskan village. They leave Seattle in the fall and have many adventures. A unique view of an Inside Passage journey.
The Alaska Companion
The latest edition of Upton’s popular Alaska Cruise Handbook, expanded to include much of interior and western Alaska. Hundreds of color photographs and maps as well as the included 22 x 34 illustrated story map of Alaska and the Inside Passage.
The Alaska Cruise Explorer
Large format 8.5” x 11” colorful guide for Alaska cruise passengers with many maps, colorful stories, Joe’s journal entries, and historical photographs.
The Inside Passage Companion
Large format 8.5” x 11” colorful guide to the Seattle to Skagway route among the islands of the Inside Passage with many maps, stories and historical photos.
Young Men Go North
An Alaska fishing memoir. Upton’s account’s of a long career in the Alaska fisheries with many photographs and great stories and journal entries.
