Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Schooler, Lynn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1608194647 ISBN 13: 9781608194643

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2011

Riassunto

Lynn Schooler had recently lost a dear friend and was feeling his marriage slipping away from him when he set out on a daring journey-first by boat, then on foot-into the Alaskan wilderness to clear his head. His solo expedition, recounted inWalking Home, is filled with the awe and danger of being on one's own in the wild, being battered by the elements and even, for two harrowing days, becoming the terrified quarry of a grizzly bear.

But the formidable, lonely landscape is also rich with human stories-of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the myths of the region's Tlingit Indians. Relating his journey, Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and the present, to investigate-on a remote and uninhabited shore-what it means to be not only part of nature's wild web, but also a member of a human community in the flow of history.

Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue Bear and The Last Shot. He has lived in Alaska for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, shipwright, wilderness guide, and award-winning wildlife photographer.

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Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue Bear and The Last Shot. He has lived in Alaska for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, shipwright, wilderness guide, and award-winning wildlife photographer.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1608194647
• ISBN 13: 9781608194643
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 262