'Southeast Alaska' is the newest book from famous local photographers
Tue, 06/22/2010
Longtime Normandy Park residents Cliff and Nancy Hollenbeck have released a pictorial coffee-table book entitled “Southeast Alaska.”
Published by Todd Communications of Anchorage, the book includes the Hollenbecks' photographs of the natural features of Alaska's southeastern panhandle and a number of interviews with residents of the small communities in the area.
The Hollenbecks specialize in travel writing and photography, having written for airlines, cruise lines, resorts, tourism associations and mainstream publishers.
They have authored more than 24 books on travel, photography, and business, including bestselling volumes featuring photographs from Hawaii and Mexico. Noted novelist James A. Michener wrote the forward for their coffee-table book on Mexico.
Nancy Hollenbeck was born in Anchorage Alaska. Her grandfather, Charles A. Davis, homesteaded in Hope and was among the originators of the Alaska Guide Association. His family operated a placer gold mine.
Prior to World War II, Nancy's father Captain Charles A. Davis, Jr. worked at Merrill Field in Anchorage. During the war, he flew B-29s in the Pacific Theater, returning to Anchorage to become a captain with Pacific Northern Airlines, which merged with Western Airlines and later Delta Airlines.
Following in her father's footsteps, Nancy joined Wien Consolidated Airlines as a flight attendant after graduating from college. Following the hijacking of her maiden flight, she received the Alaska Heroism Medal from Gov. William Egan.
She later served as art director of Wien's in-flight magazine, which won the Alaska Press Club's Best Magazine of the Year. She won a national Clio for an Alaska Airline poster when she was the vice president of Pacific Advertising in Seattle.
Cliff worked for the Fairbanks News Miner as a feature editor and photographer. Later, he joined the Anchorage Times as the business and political editor.
He worked in advertising and public relations for Wien and Alaska Airlines.
As a freelancer, Cliff has been named Travel Photographer of the year twice, and he has participated in several “Day In the Life” books and authored the travel-mystery novel, "Acapulco Goodbye."