Table of Contents - Master of Alaska

Preface. vii

MAPS OF ALASKA. xiv

Chapter 1 FINDING UNALASKA (shipwreck). 1

Chapter 2 THE ALEUTS (rescuers). 17

Chapter 3 NANUQ AND KATLIAN (main antagonists – Nanuq is Baranov's new Native name.). 40

Chapter 4 NATURE RULES SUPREME (natural disaster). 57

Chapter 5 CHIEF CHOKTA (Native conflict). 69

Chapter 6 BARANOV MEETS ANOOKA (a love story begins). 77

Chapter 7 FIRST BLOOD (Tlingit attack on Russians). 90

Chapter 8 TO BUILD A SHIP IN WILDERNESS (doing the impossible). 96

Chapter 9 CATHERINE, TSARINA OF ALL THE RUSSIAS (she sets rules for Alaska). 107

Chapter 10 THE VANCOUVER CHALLENGE AND BATTLES OF WITS (British aims in conflict). 114

Chapter 11 ANOOKA BECOMES ANNA AND LEADS THE BLIND TO DENALI. 125

                      (Baranov marries Anooka, she guides Russians to Mt. Denali, and she defines their relationship.)

Chapter 12 BARANOV FACES THE CHURCH. 138

Chapter 13 NANUQ RULES YAKUTAT. 144

Chapter 14 TWO WIVES AND TWO LIVES. 153

Chapter 15 EMPIRE BUILDING. 164

Chapter 16 TRAGEDIES AT SEA. 172

Chapter 17 A FOOTHOLD ON SITKA . 182

Chapter 18 ANNA’S FAITH AND THE TSAR’S DEATH. 195

Chapter 19 BARANOV HONORED AMONG WHIPPED DOGS. 205

Chapter 20 THE SITKA MASSACRE (Tlingit attack). 221

Chapter 21 BARANOV SEES HELL . 232

Chapter 22 A NOBLEMAN PREPARES FOR BATTLE. 246

Chapter 23 THE BATTLE OF SITKA (Baranov seeks to reclaim Sitka). 257

Chapter 24 HAWAII FEEDS SITKA, AND YAKUTAT NEWS. 270

Chapter 25 REZANOV BRINGS VISIONS OF EMPIRE. 277

Chapter 26 A SAN FRANCISCO ROMANCE. 288

Chapter 27 REZANOV’S GRAND DESIGN. 298

Chapter 28 MAKING PEACE. 304

Chapter 29 ASSASSINS EVERYWHERE. 319

Chapter 30 ONE PRAZNYK TOO MANY. 332

Chapter 31 SKIPPING STONES ACROSS CALM WATERS. 339

Chapter 32 IRINA AND KATLIAN. 347

Chapter 33 RED TIDE. 355

Chapter 34 MEETING OF THE MINDS. 361

Chapter 35 A WEDDING TO REMEMBER. 368

Chapter 36 THE FALL OF BARANOV, AND NANUQ SAYS GOODBYE. 373

EPILOGUE. 384

APPENDIX. 386

     Excerpts from original sources: letters from Baranov and Rezanov, and from the

     first-hand biography by K.T. Khlebnikov

Bibliography. 405

About the Author. 408