Walking Home [Lingua Inglese]: A Journey in the Alaskan Wilderness - Rilegato

Schooler, Lynn

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 140881028X ISBN 13: 9781408810286

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010

Riassunto

In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by labouring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, travelling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travellers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others. In Walking Home Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, and investigates, with elegance and soul, what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.

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affronta l' avventura dell' autore nel alaskan Wilderness, e le sue scoperte sulla casa si lascia alle spalle, questo titolo racconta una storia di trovare l' - e un senso di Umanità, nella natura selvaggia. Si crea una conversazione tra l' uomo e il naturale, e indaga cosa significa essere una parte del flusso della storia umana.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 140881028X
• ISBN 13: 9781408810286
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272