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# Nick Jans

Alaskan Author and Photographer

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://nickjans.com/blog/)
- [Watch Nick's Newest Romeo presentation for the Fireside Chat Series, Feb 11, 2022.](https://nickjans.com/watch-nicks-newest-romeo-presentation-for-the-fireside-chat-series-feb-11-2022/)
- [Farewell Putyuk](https://nickjans.com/farewell-putyuk/) - WE BETTER GET GOING,” ALVIN WILLIAMS SAID “Daylight’s burning.” A dozen of us stood with shovels and axes on a snow-covered knoll on the south side of the Kobuk River, five miles below the Inupiaq village of Ambler. Weathered wooden crosses rose through the drifts; before us, a rectangle of cleared ground. My companions had
- [Wolf Grin](https://nickjans.com/wolf-grin/) - I was sitting with several photographers on the Katmai Coast on an early June day in 2015, waiting for a big male brown bear to wander closer. Someone said, "There's a wolf coming up behind us!" And sure enough, up trotted this young male, to within ten feet of me. His eyes had a very
- [Just in: Romeo Refrigerator Magnets!](https://nickjans.com/just-in-romeo-refrigerator-magnets/) - Newly arrived in our web store: Romeo Refrigerator Magnets High quality reproduction 4.25x5.5 inch size $5.00 with free postage
- [Fireside Lecture and Dedication of the Black Wolf Exhibit](https://nickjans.com/fireside-lecture-and-dedication-of-the-black-wolf-exhibit/) - Friday, January 13, 2017 at the Mendenhall Visitor Center Special thanks to Jos Bakker of Juneau who recorded this and gave permission for its use. Romeo the black wolf from Jos Bakker on Vimeo.
- [Grizz](https://nickjans.com/grizz/) - Spent a quiet half hour near this gorgeous male grizzly in early October, just a few feet off the Alaska Highway near Kluane Lake. I'd just driven hundreds of miles through the first snow of the season, heading south from Fairbanks to Haines There was a tremendous wind ripping whitecaps across the lake, and this
- [Starry Night](https://nickjans.com/starry-night/) - Took this shot from my yard in Ambler, AK this past September. Just a few spectacular moments out of a night that was lit by faint to moderate auroral displays. Reminds me of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" with all that swirling motion. If you look closely, you can see the Kobuk River glinting in the
- [Horsing Around](https://nickjans.com/horsing-around/) - It’s about a month ago, at my pal Vic Walker’s house in Juneau, celebrating a return to Alaska, reuniting with good friends, a new book coming out, and whatever else comes along. At the moment captured in the photo, taken by Vic, my wife Sherrie is receiving yet another object lesson reminding her what she
- [Halfway House](https://nickjans.com/halfway-house/) - So here Sherrie, dogs, and I are, on the summer solstice, the one-month anniversary of moving to Haines—more precisely, to a gravel lane off Chilkat Lake road, just after mile 26 on the Haines Highway, about 10 miles shy of the Canadian border. Our five-acre homestead perches on a knoll a half mile off the
- [A Wolf Called Romeo](https://nickjans.com/a-wolf-called-romeo/) - At last, after seven years of living the story of Romeo the wolf, and another three years of writing and interviews and research and review and seemingly endless edits and re-writes and revisions, A Wolf Called Romeo is complete, and being shipped to bookstores across the country. The first-print hardcover edition, which I held in
- [Nick Jans: Summing Things Up](https://nickjans.com/nick-jans-summing-things-up/) - Many people are familiar with the name Nick Jans. For more than 25 years he’s written about his experiences in various parts of the state for Alaska Magazine. From those essays and other experiences, he’s published 12 books. A recent work A Wolf Called Romeo captured a slot on the New York Times Best Seller

## Pages

- [Home](https://nickjans.com/) - New from Nick Jans! Romeo the Friendly Wolf A retelling of Romeo the wolf’s true saga in a unique photo storybook meant to be savored and shared. "Jans is an exceptional storyteller--no nature writer can top him in terms of sheer emotional force." -- The New York Times Award Winner 2024 Living Now Book Awards:
- [Awards](https://nickjans.com/awards/) - Awards and Honors 2024 Living Now Book Awards: Gold Medal 2024 IPBA Benjamin Franklin Awards: Gold Medal Eric Hoffer Awards: Montaigne Medal Finalist Next Gen Indy Awards: Medaling finalist, two categories Grand Prize in the Next Gen Short Story Awards For Short Fiction (all currently unpublished): 1987 Hall Prize For Fiction, University of Washington Graduate
- [Romeo Lives!](https://nickjans.com/romeo-lives/) - Reader responses to Romeo's story. Readers have sent in their art, photos and reactions.
- [ReviewX Schedule Email Unsubscribe](https://nickjans.com/rx-schedule-email-unsubscribe/) - You have been unsubscribed. You have been unsubscribed from these emails and sorry to see you go.
- [Alaska Magazine Stories](https://nickjans.com/on-the-edge/) - These are selected pieces from Nick's On the Edge column, a regular feature of Alaska Magazine for 27 years and counting:
- [Links](https://nickjans.com/links/) - Romeo the black wolf from Jos Bakker on Vimeo. Evening at Egan series presentation at University of Alaska Southeast on Oct. 16, 2015 Wolfdog Radio Wolfdog Radio was created to bring current, relevant, and legislative issues to the forefront and be a proactive voice for the wolfdog. The Page 99 Test A guest blog appearance
- [Contact](https://nickjans.com/contact/) - NOTE: International (non-USA) shipping rates vary, but generally run $15-2$0 USD. Please inquire via email. Personalization: if you would like an item personalized, please send details via email after you have made your purchase. Contact Us Name * First Last * Last Email * Subject * Message * Submit If you are human, leave this
- [More Info](https://nickjans.com/more-info/) - Nick Jans Answers questions about A Wolf Called Romeo That’s quite a striking cover shot—a huge, wild Alaska wolf and a Labrador retriever facing each other. What’s the story on that? That’s the actual photo from the opening scene of the book, the first time my wife, Sherrie, our dog, Dakotah, and I met the
- [About](https://nickjans.com/about/) - Best-selling author Nick Jans is one of Alaska’s most recognized and prolific writers. A longtime contributing editor to Alaska Magazine and a member of USA Today’s board of editorial contributors, he’s written twelve books and hundreds of magazine articles and columns, and has contributed to many anthologies and other books. Jans is also a professional
- [Calendar](https://nickjans.com/calendar/)
- [Shop](https://nickjans.com/shop/)

## Products

- [A Wolf Called Romeo](https://nickjans.com/shop/a-wolf-called-romeo/) - Soft cover Published 2014
- [Once Upon Alaska, A Kid's Photo book 2014](https://nickjans.com/shop/once-upon-alaska-a-kids-photo-book-2014/) - Hard cover Published 2014
- [A Place Beyond 1996](https://nickjans.com/shop/a-place-beyond-1996/) - Soft cover 1996
- [The Giant's Hand 2016](https://nickjans.com/shop/the-giants-hand/) - New release: 2016 Hard Cover 260 pages 37 stories with black and white images
- [Last Light Breaking 1993](https://nickjans.com/shop/last-light-breaking-1993/) - Living among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos Soft Cover 1993
- [Romeo the Friendly Wolf](https://nickjans.com/shop/romeo-the-friendly-wolf/) - New from Nick Jans! Hard cover 64 Pages Published 2023
- [Web Special!](https://nickjans.com/shop/holiday-special/) - Giant's Hand (normally 22.95, Hardcover) and A Wolf Called Romeo (15.00, soft cover) for 30.00! (An 8.00 savings to the same shipping address) Please indicate to whom you want it personalized, or just signed and dated, on special instructions box. Note: The web special includes “A Wolf Called Romeo” not “Romeo the Friendly Wolf", which can be purchased separately.
- [Nick Jans Visions of Wild Alaska Prints](https://nickjans.com/shop/princesss-cruises-visions-of-wild-alaska-prints/) - These 16x20 images are custom printed with archival paper and ink by an Alaska printer who does museum quality work. All images are $90.00 each. Price includes packaging in a protective mailing tube and USPS Priority Mail inside the U.S. (For shipping outside the U.S. please inquire). I've had a number of inquiries regarding special
- [A Wolf Called Romeo Images](https://nickjans.com/shop/a-wolf-called-romeo-images/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. They are $15 apiece plus postage (three dollars flat rate, whether for one image or all seven). All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor.
- [Romeo Refrigerator Magnet](https://nickjans.com/shop/romeo-refrigerator-magnet/) - High quality reproduction 4.25x5.5 inch size Free Shipping
- [A Wolf Called Romeo](https://nickjans.com/shop/a-wolf-called-romeo-2/) - On this April day in 2009, Romeo the wolf stood on a snow berm at the West Glacier Trail head. Though into at least his eighth year (ancient for a wild male wolf), Romeo seemed as if he might live forever. Then he was gone. I still miss him.
- [The Grizzly Maze 2005](https://nickjans.com/shop/the-grizzly-maze-2005/) - Soft cover 2005
- [The Big Show](https://nickjans.com/shop/the-big-show/) - Humpback whales bubble net feeding is one of the world’s great wildlife spectacles. Working as a team, a group of whales dives, locates a school of herring, and blows curtains of bubbles to encircle them. Driving their prey to the surface, they burst through, jaws agape. Southeast Alaska is the premier spot to view this
- [Sassy Bruin](https://nickjans.com/shop/sassy-bruin/) - This shot captures the spirit of this young female black bear perfectly. A regular at Anan Creek Wildlife Viewing Site, she’d been nicknamed Bradley, after the local head ranger at the time. Small, playful, and saucy, her antics pushed the envelope with rangers and local bears alike.
- [Canyons of the Heart](https://nickjans.com/shop/canyons-of-the-heart/) - This may be my favorite spot in all Alaska: a hidden world up a narrow, remote canyon, with a spring-fed river literally rising out of the rocks and pouring downhill, its vivid blue tint from minerals dissolved in the water. Getting there is a long, rough trip, but I keep going back.
- [September Light](https://nickjans.com/shop/september-light/) - The skull of a caribou lies on a brilliant autumn carpet of frost-burned bearberry and blueberry. The passes through which the caribou pour lie beyond, to the north.
- [Quiet Giant](https://nickjans.com/shop/quiet-giant/) - Most of the bears I’ve watched have been busy grazing or sleeping. Solitary by nature, these intelligent, powerful creatures generally avoid conflict and the bulk of their diet is vegetarian—though salmon and occasional meat are welcome additions.
- [Incoming!](https://nickjans.com/shop/incoming/) - This female polar bear was headed straight toward our grounded skiff, and she was as close as she looks. But she was curious rather than aggressive, and the encounter ended peacefully.
- [Glacier Wolf](https://nickjans.com/shop/glacier-wolf/) - The wild black wolf Juneau residents came to call Romeo crosses Mendenhall Lake, with the glacier of the same name rising beyond. I snapped this image a half mile from my back door.
- [Jumping for Joy](https://nickjans.com/shop/jumping-for-joy/) - This adult humpback whale breached ten or more times while I watched, with seemingly boundless exuberance. No one knows why these huge mammals expend so much energy to leap, but it’s a thrill to watch. I do suspect they’re just having fun.
- [Once in a Lifetime](https://nickjans.com/shop/once-in-a-lifetime/) - This image of a bull moose fording the Kobuk River, as a thunderstorm cleared and a rainbow blazed, is perhaps the most phenomenal photo opportunity ever to pass before my lens. It’s so vivid it seems surreal—but this moment reminds me that miracles sometimes happen.
- [Buddy Wolf Romeo](https://nickjans.com/shop/buddy-wolf-romeo/) - Buddy Wolf Romeo, Juneau’s friendly wolf, rises to greet visiting dogs. This surprisingly gentle wild wolf lived among the people of Juneau, Alaska for six years and engaged in regular friendly contacts with canines and their accompanying humans.
- [Snow Howl](https://nickjans.com/shop/snow-howl-2/) - This particular March evening, the snow came down so hard and fast it seemed the sky was falling. Romeo the wolf stood a few feet away in the storm, howling over and over as darkness fell.
- [Arctic Wanderer](https://nickjans.com/shop/arctic-wanderer/) - I met this big bull caribou along the upper Ambler River as I sat on a gravel bar. He accepted me with calm curiosity, at one point approaching within ten feet to examine me before trotting on his endless journey.
- [Wolf Grin](https://nickjans.com/shop/wolf-grin/) - Glimpsing a wild wolf is a highlight of any trip. Having one approach to just short of touching distance and hang out for a few minutes, as this one did, is almost unheard of. This young male at Kukak Bay flashed me and my companions this relaxed, sociable grin before trotting on his way.
- [Arctic Desert](https://nickjans.com/shop/arctic-desert/) - The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes seem to belong in the Arabian Desert rather than the Arctic. They were created thousands of years ago by huge winds piling up glacier-created sand after the last ice age. The tallest dunes rise to over 300 feet.
- [Tough Guy](https://nickjans.com/shop/tough-guy-meet/) - Meet the hoary redpoll, ounce for ounce, one of the hardiest of all Alaska’s wild creatures. Instead of flying south for the winter, it braves temperatures down to 60 below zero through a variety of adaptations—including storing food in pouches under its tiny wings for midnight snacks, falling into a near-coma, then shivering itself awake.
- [Fire and Ice](https://nickjans.com/shop/fire-and-ice/) - The Hubbard Glacier in Yakutat Bay ranks as one of Alaska’s most active and dynamic tidewater glaciers, calving and grinding constantly. This rocky shoreline blazing with wildflowers is testament to the resilience of life in the shadow of ice.
- [Surprise Visitor](https://nickjans.com/shop/surprise-visitor/) - This lone musk ox bull showed up a couple hundred yards from my cabin in Ambler, a tiny Inupiaq Eskimo village on the upper Kobuk River. It was about the last thing I expected to see that day. Though generally homebodies, individuals like this bull sometimes travel far in search of new territory. Their normal
- [Mom and the Kids](https://nickjans.com/shop/mom-and-the-kids/) - Female brown/grizzlies form close bonds with their cubs, nurturing, teaching, and protecting them for two to three years. Each cub is an individual with a distinct personality. I watched this family for two hours at close range. At one point, one of the cubs chased a playful red fox while the other clung close to
- [Small Beginnings](https://nickjans.com/shop/small-beginnings/) - Being able to look down into a bald eagle’s nest at close range is a rare experience, and the tolerance of this mother was unusual. By autumn, these fluffy, helpless chicks will be as large as their parents (dappled brown, with no white caps) and will set out on their own. Southeast Alaska alone is
- [Noisy Neighbors](https://nickjans.com/shop/noisy-neighbors/) - What strikes me most about Stellar Sea lions on a haul-out is the tremendous, constant noise—roaring, barking, moaning, and grumbling. They spend large parts of each day in these customary spots, where they crowd together to bask and snooze. This dominant bull rules the roost, and makes sure everyone knows it.
- [Endless Journey](https://nickjans.com/shop/endless-journey/) - This image always takes me home, to a river bend I’ve known more than half my life. A band of caribou fords the Kobuk River on a sun-washed early autumn day; the first snow dusts the Jade Mountains and winter is coming fast. The seasonal movement of the western arctic caribou herd, 275,000 strong, is
- [Dark Eyes](https://nickjans.com/shop/dark-eyes/) - I lay on my belly, getting soaked in the rain for a half hour to get this shot. This harbor seal was hunting herring around the docks in Auke Bay, in Juneau.
- [Bad Hair Day](https://nickjans.com/shop/bad-hair-day/) - It’s bound to happen to all of us. But this young porcupine, chowing on willow buds on the edge of our yard, seems especially challenged.
- [Taking Names](https://nickjans.com/shop/taking-names/) - While weighing just ounces, there’s nothing small-hearted about a short-tailed weasel (also known in its white winter phase as ermine). I’ve had dozens of encounters with this quick little predator, and every time I’ve had the impression that I was being sized up.
- [Gorgeous Ghost](https://nickjans.com/shop/gorgeous-ghost/) - I accompanied this female arctic fox hunting and caching lemmings in glowing silver ice fog for nearly an hour. You could say we hit it off; in fact, she dug up a lemming she’d caught and laid it near my feet. I passed.
- [A Place Beyond](https://nickjans.com/shop/a-place-beyond/) - The upper Noatak Valley, on the spine of the western Brooks Range, is about as wild and far as Alaska gets—especially in winter to early spring, when travelers are rare. The nearest village lies a hundred miles away. It’s so quiet you can sometimes hear the beating of your own heart.
- [Love At First Sight](https://nickjans.com/shop/love-at-first-sight/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor. Please see the following link for more information: http://juneaucf.org/blackwolf.html and do consider making a tax-deductible donation to
- [Saying Hi](https://nickjans.com/shop/saying-hi/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor. Please see the following link for more information: http://juneaucf.org/blackwolf.html and do consider making a tax-deductible donation to
- [The Glacier Wolf](https://nickjans.com/shop/the-glacier-wolf/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor. Please see the following link for more information: http://juneaucf.org/blackwolf.html and do consider making a tax-deductible donation to
- [Romeo](https://nickjans.com/shop/romeo/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor. Please see the following link for more information: http://juneaucf.org/blackwolf.html and do consider making a tax-deductible donation to
- [On the Move](https://nickjans.com/shop/on-the-move/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor. Please see the following link for more information: http://juneaucf.org/blackwolf.html and do consider making a tax-deductible donation to
- [Snow Howl](https://nickjans.com/shop/snow-howl/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor. Please see the following link for more information: http://juneaucf.org/blackwolf.html and do consider making a tax-deductible donation to
- [Buddy Wolf](https://nickjans.com/shop/buddy-wolf/) - These 5x7 images are printed with archival paper and ink. All profits from sales of these seven Romeo images go toward The Black Wolf Special Project, a nonprofit-sponsored fund for a museum-quality exhibit in Juneau in his honor. Please see the following link for more information: http://juneaucf.org/blackwolf.html and do consider making a tax-deductible donation to

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- [Books by Nick Jans](https://nickjans.com/product-category/books-by-nick-jans/)
- [Visions of Alaska Photos](https://nickjans.com/product-category/visions-of-alaska-photos/) - Prints are 16×20 inches, printed on archival paper and ink and signed. $150 per image plus $15 US Priority Mail in a protective tube inside US
- [Romeo Photo Prints](https://nickjans.com/product-category/romeo-photo-prints/) - Prints are 5×7 inches, signed, printed with archival paper and ink, $15 plus $3 flat shipping for one or more images.
- [Images](https://nickjans.com/product-category/images/)