Northern Lights & Shadows front book cover

A snowmachine trail across a frozen lake leads to a thickly forested area covered in black spruce. The snow-covered Talkeetna mountains and a rising moon peek through the trees.

Northern Lights & Shadows back book cover

The back cover contains the following text:

“The odor of wood smoke; the flavor of moose meat; the growl of a grizzly; the numbing, subarctic cold…”

Lee Basnar vividly describes how he and his wife, Joan, lived, loved, and laughed their way through adventures and mishaps in the remote Alaska wilderness.

“A loud ‘Woof!’ spun me around one evening while I rummaged in my plane for some fishing gear. A light tan, medium-sized grizzly growled at me from across the narrow stream.”

Lee Basnar's photo appears on the cover, along with the ISBN: 1-59113-778-0.

Four additional photos appear, from upper left to lower right:

Joan Basnar in the foreground with the snow-covered Alaska Range and the West Fork of the Chulitna River in the background.
Lee Basnar in a red parka and a black and white knit hat against a background of black spruce and mountains.
The Talkeetna Mountains reflected in Ravenhead Pond in autumn.
Lee and Joan Basnar's cabin in winter.

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A small airplane, a 1946 Taylorcraft, sits in front of a fuel shed on a dirt airstrip. Spruce forest and towering mountains are visible behind the plane.