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 enlarge | Authors: Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 4170
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 26th Anniversary ed.
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0882405136
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.984
EAN: 9780882405131
ASIN: 0882405136
Publication Date: June 1, 2003
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| Customer Reviews:
 excellent read May 2, 2008
I read this book cover to cover in less than two days - it's excellent!
Fascinating April 9, 2008
This is a must have for any handyman, outdoorsman, alaska lover, etc. You will be amazed by what this man does and the age he does it at!
You in Alaska April 6, 2008
This book is a fantastic journal of one man's personal adventure.
It is a daily log and seems to put you right into the day and time
of every event. As you read it, you will feel yourself picking the
blueberries, shaping each log and building a cabin. You will find
yourself watching bears, listening to sounds of a river flow at night,
the sounds of ice breaking from the frozen river.
You will find yourself creating a batch of sourdough biscuits, cooking
a pot of beans, to making friends with animals that arrive daily for you
to feed.
After I finished reading this book, I immediately started it again.
It is fantastic. I am now picking up little bits of information that
I somehow missed with first reading. It is definately a book that you
will find yourself going back to, because it IS an adventure without
ever leaving home
What a Great Man......Living his Dream April 4, 2008
This is a great book about Richard Proenneke that choose to live his dream. He is an honest good man enjoying the wonderful land of Alaska.
I read his original, handwritten journal... April 2, 2008
From 1970-74, I was an associate editor of ALASKA, the Magazine of Life on the Last Frontier, which was then owned by Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. I remember the day a stranger walked into our editorial offices in Anchorage and introduced himself as Dick Proenneke. Executive Editor Ed Fortier and I sat with him for a long time, listening, enthralled, as he told us of his experiences at Twin Lakes. Ed, who had built a log cabin of his own across Cook Inlet, was a sourdough journalist who understood the challenges this soft-spoken man had faced. I was especially touched by his account of the wolf pups he had adopted and raised, and by their farewell to him as they reentered the wild. Soon I was taking a stack of Dick's handwritten journals home with me to read, and to pull out article ideas for the magazine. My husband picked up those pages and was soon absorbed by the narrative -- so eloquent in its simplicity -- and became an instant admirer. Everything about Dick and his story are uniquely Alaskan. So when I happened to see the documentary, "Silence and Solitude" on tv last night, I was delighted to rediscover my old friend. I'm so pleased that Dick has been able to spend so many years at Twin Lakes and to continue sharing his experiences. I view him as something of a modern-day Thoreau -- reminding us all to "simplify" and to respect the lessons we can learn from Nature, while cherishing her incredible beauty.
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