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Title: Koviashuvik: Making a Home in the Brooks Range by Sam Wright ISBN: 0816517959 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 3
Summary: Too much vacuous philosophy
Comment: I was hoping to find out more about life in the Brooks Range. Be warned! This is not a travelogue, or account of life in the Brooks Range, at least not more than a superficial account. This book is chock full, full to overflowing, with sentences of the following ilk: "It was a strange experience to visit the United States when you are living in the United States but not really in the United States, because people in America did not think of us as really being in the United States. But we are. Yes, we really are."
That was taken from a random page. I could have given a better example if my purpose in writing this was anything greater, but it is not. No. It is not. Oops, I'm talking like the author. I get it, of course, but it becomes too much.
Other gripes: Extended periods of time spent in the U.S. (as it were) and Britain described.
This book is Sam Wright's personal meditation. Some people might be interested in that. I was looking for information on the Brooks Range, and while some is given, the quantity is quite small considering a 200+ page book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Beautiful Book about a Beautiful Place
Comment: This book is a jewel: A beautiful meditation about humanity and its place in the universe, as told through the eyes of a man who lived with his wife for 20 years in Alaska's Brooks Range, the world's last great wilderness. The writing is both profound and familiar. The style is such that you often feel that Wright is sitting next to you, talking to you. It is truly a work of wisdom, and one that is as much a philosophical meditation as an observation of nature.
The Brooks range is a uniquely beautiful and austere place; This book is a unique, and undeservedly obscure treasure. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for hikers and rafters in the far north of Alaska
Comment: Sam and Billie lived in the Brooks Range in a 12 by 12 cabin, summer and winter for a dozen years. Sam's story is more than a cronicle of subsistence living in America's last great wilderness. Sam reintroduces us as a human community to a life that we have known but has been lost in our modern context. He asks questions that many of us are asking about our relationship to each other and the natural world. It is truly a spiritual journey. If you like Sam's book you might also like Billie Wright's book, Four Season's North, written about their first year in the far north.
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Title: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke ISBN: 0882405136 Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Story of Survival and Courage in the Alaska Wilds by Norma Cobb, Charles Sasser ISBN: 0312261985 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River by Sidney Huntington, Jim Rearden, Jim Reardon ISBN: 088240427X Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness by Lynn Schooler ISBN: 0066210852 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 0312261780 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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