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 enlarge | Authors: Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
Buy Used: $6.55
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Avg. Customer Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 4375
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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 One of the great journals of wilderness living February 13, 2002
38 out of 38 found this review helpful
This is a powerful book and has quite a following. I was given the book by one of my best friends, which I consider a wonderful gift. This book has it all, beautiful photos, Richard's journal notes are amazing in their insight to his thinking and how this adventure unfolded. It is a simply wonderful book, and has people traveling to Alaska just to see the setting for such a balanced book. This book lays claim to new territory, and the claim is valid. No wonder it sells well, it is captivating reading and makes you look hard and close at your own life.
 Interesting details, but slow for me January 17, 2002
6 out of 28 found this review helpful
I like books that contain the kind of real details that this book contains. Properly presented, fact can be more interesting than fiction. The book reads somewhat like a journal. For me, however, it deserves 3 stars because of writing quality, and because it failed to keep me reading past midnight.
A vision of life in the backwoods September 19, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was suprised by how captivated I was with this book. Written as a journal, I expected it to be dull as he described daily life in rural Alaska. It kept my attention , I found myself eager to share his days.
 A keeper October 23, 2000
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
A book to read more than once. Not dated at all. Oddly enough, a real page-turner, too.
Four years later, I read it again. Still loved it. This time, I noticed other things. How his siblings were so supportive, always writing to him. His sister paid the pilot's wife to bake him a birthday cake. Did the siblings pay for all the pilot's trips? Without all of those letters, he might not have been able to sustain his great attitude so long. Also, what about those "mission girls"? It's never resolved. And how did he power his movie camera? Did the pilot bring charged batteries? Did he have a generator we don't hear about? Another thing: the prose is so spare for the first year, it's like haiku. Then in the last few months the journal entries become more intermittent and much longer. Was that Dick writing more? If so, why? Or Sam editing less? I would like to see the original journals, too. At least a few passages. Also, I would like a much more detailed epilogue. How long did he stay in Iowa? When did he first return? And what about those mission girls, anyway?
One Man's Wilderness September 3, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book is so fascinating - an incredible story. I bought this book while vacationing in Alaska - what he did is incredible to someone like me - born and raised in the lower 48 and seeing how wild Alaska still is even now. And this book takes place thirty years ago! This book really embodies - to me - the spirit of those who live in Alaska.
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