Here is a selection of the best books about the Yukon River, ranging from paddling guides to personal journals and juvenile fiction. The books listed below the ones with cover images are now out of print, but virtually all can be found through the dealer network at ABEbooks.com.

    For online information about the river, see the Guide to the Yukon River at ExploreNorth.

Published May 2006
A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage along the Yukon River
by Dan O'Neill

Dan Maclean Paddling the Yukon and its Tributaries (Publication Consultants, 2005)

John Hildebrand Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997)

Megan Baldino & Matt Hage Two In A Red Canoe: Our Journey Down The Yukon (Graphic Arts Books, 2005)

Pierre Berton Drifting Home: A Family's Voyage of Discovery Down the Wild Yukon River (Douglas & McIntyre, reprint 2003)

Penny Rennick, editor The Middle Yukon River (Alaska Northwest Books, 1990)

Bruce Trelawny Batchelor Yukon Channel Charts (Trafford, 1996)

Archie Satterfield Exploring the Yukon River (Backinprint.com, 2000)

Will Hobbs Down the Yukon (HarperCollins, 2001)

Craig Mishler Han, People of the River (University of Alaska Press, 2004)

Peter Lourie Yukon River: An Adventure to the Gold Fields of the Klondike (Boyds Mills Press, 2000)

• Cohen, Stan:
  Yukon River Steamboats: A Pictorial History (Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories, 1984)

• Beth Johnson:
  Yukon Wild: The Adventures of Four Women Who Paddled 2,000 Miles Through America's Last Frontier (Berkshire House, 1984)

• Gus Karpes:
  Exploring the Upper Yukon River (Hancock House, 1998)

• Knutson, Arthur E.:
  Sternwheels on the Yukon (Kirkland, WA: Knutson, 1979)

• Rourke, Mike:
  Yukon River - Marsh Lake, Yukon to Circle, Alaska (Houston, B.C.: Rivers North, 1985) Also available in 3 shorter sections, updated in 1995.