One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Annivers

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Annivers Feature

• ISBN13: 9780882405131
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Annivers Overview

To live in a pristine land ... to roam the wilderness ... to choose a site, cut trees, and build a home ... Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. Here is a tribute to a man in tune with his surroundings who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond.

Customer Reviews

As one other reviewer said, "Dick Proenneke is the real deal." Yes he had help living in Alaska via once a month or so resupply via airplane. Yes if we all moved to this lake and cut down the necessary trees to build our own cabin, it would look like Ohio does now. Remember that is exactly what the pioneers did. The reason Alaska still looks the way it does without strip malls everywhere is that the weather and the distances keep things closer to what they were before we all got there.

Anyway on a cold dark winter's day, riding the bus to the cubical world I live in to feed the family and fix the world, this was a great read. To dream of going off and not having to do anything but survive, build my own shelter, hunt and cook and farm. But as a dream it's great, as the reality, nope, it'd be nuts, or rather I'd go nuts. But that's more about me than Dick. Dick's story is that he didn't go nuts, he didn't do stupid things like "Into the Wild." He was physically, and mentally prepared. He had a plan, if it hadn't worked out, he had a back up, Babe could fly him out. He'd live until then in the neighbors cabin. He had food, so that he didn't have to hunt. Ok it's beans, but you can survive on it.

What I loved about this book, was it's not, lets go into the wilderness and kill everything we see, but rather, we take only what is absolutely necessary and leave the rest alone. And that before he leaves, he makes a trip to all the hunting camps and cleans up their trash. Sheesh, you'd think that hunters would not leave beer cans and garbage in such a pristine spot.

What my wife kept asking was how did he manage without his woman at his side? and the book does not really address that.

Anyway highly recommended as a read.

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