New PDF release: One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

By Sam Keith

ISBN-10: 0882405136

ISBN-13: 9780882405131

This best-selling memoir from Richard Proenneke's journals and with firsthand wisdom of his topic and the atmosphere, Sam Keith has woven a tribute to a guy who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond.  To reside in a pristine land unchanged through guy . . . to roam a desolate tract wherein few different people has handed . . . to decide on an idyllic website, minimize bushes through hand, and construct a log cabin. . . to be self-sufficient craftsman, making what's wanted from fabrics available...to be no longer at odds with the realm, yet content material with one's personal strategies, desires and corporate.   millions have had such goals, yet Richard Proenneke lived them. This e-book is a relocating account of the daily explorations and actions Dick performed alone....alone within the wilderness...and the consistent chain of nature's occasions that saved him company.

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It was a great feeling—a stirring feeling. Free once more to plan and do as I pleased. Beyond was all around me. The dream was a dream no longer. I suppose I was here because this was something I had to do. Not just dream about it but do it. I suppose, too, I was here to test myself, not that I had never done it before, but this time it was to be a more thorough and lasting examination. What was I capable of that I didn’t know yet? What about my limits? Could I truly enjoy my own company for an entire year?

What was I capable of that I didn’t know yet? What about my limits? Could I truly enjoy my own company for an entire year? Was I equal to everything this wild land could throw at me? I had seen its moods in late spring, summer, and early fall, but what about winter? Would I love the isolation then, with its bone-stabbing cold, its brooding ghostly silence, its forced confinement? At age fifty-one I intended to find out. My mind was swarming with the how and when of projects. Could I really build the cabin with just hand tools to the standards I had set in my mind?

A wren-type bird kept flushing and flitting daintily ahead of me. His tiny body had a yellowish green cast to it, but he wouldn’t sit still long enough for me to catch a good field mark. A thin film of ice covered yesterday’s open water between the edge of the lake ice and the shore. There had been a dip in the temperature last night. It was tricky going as I picked my way with quick steps over the patches of snow and ice and through stretches of great boulders and loose gravel. The pull of the packboard straps felt comfortable against my woolen shirt, and I could feel the warmth of the spring sun on my face.

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