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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Annivers by: Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke List Price: $16.95 City Travel Guides Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 917.984 EAN: 9780882405131 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0882405136 Label: Alaska Northwest Books Manufacturer: Alaska Northwest Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: June 01, 2003 Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Studio: Alaska Northwest Books Sales Rank: 5071 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: To live in a pristine land . . . roam the wilderness . . . build a home. . . . Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. Here is a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Preserving Alaska's Wonders Preserving Alaska's Natural Wonder Based on the 1960's journals kept faithfully by Dick Proenneck, an archetype of the Sierra Club's advocate, this book presents an amazing story with glorious color photographs. "I don't think a man knows what he can do until he is challenged," p. 211) concludes the man who hewed out a log cabin single handedly in the wilderness. This is a succinct statement of Proenneck's motivating philosophy of personal achievement. Readers follow his non-boastful narrative of trial and error during a remarkable 18-month sojourn in wild Alaska. His survival odyssey (physical and emotional) presents him as the quintessential Mountain Man. Satisfied to rely on Nature to supply his basic ... Read More: Rating: - The JourneyOne Man's Wilderness; ..... Well written, entertaining , I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adventure in beautiful Alaskan Wilderness ..... Rating:  - Very inspiring bookExcellent book to read. I believe everyone will enjoy this and the story of this amazing person. Easy to read diary-like story of Dick Proenneke's 16-month life alone in a beautiful wilderness of Alaska. Page by page you'll be thrilled to continue on reading and it even gets better at the end. You'll probably stand up and clap your hands to this amazing man. Rating: - One Man's WildernessThis book is written "by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke" - so although I read it and visualized the events within as if it had all been written by Richard Proenneke, it wasn't. Sam Keith tells us in the preface: "Using Dick Proenneke's rough journals as a guide, and knowing him as well as I did, I have tried to get into his mind and reveal the "flavor" of the man. This is my tribute to him, a celebration of his being in tune with his surroundings and what he did alone with simple tools and ingenuity in carving his masterpiece out of the beyond." I've seen the PBS presentation of "Alone in the Wilderness", which uses selections from the text of this book along with movie footage of Proenneke building ... Read More: Rating: - Alaskan Dream!This book is great! As close to the wilderness as you can get. If you find you can never make it to Alaska, read this and you can say how close you were. |
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