Alaska / Yukon / wild / frontier
By Patcon
@Patcon (80)
Ireland
July 6, 2007 1:14pm CST
I'm reading a book called Artic Homestead, and I'm wondering if anyone can recommend any others on travelling/ living in the wilds like Alaska. I'd recommend this book, about a couple and five young children who pack up their cars and head north to Alaska in the 70's to stake a claim under the homestead act. They have to deal with very rough living, bears etc, knowing nobody or anything about the wilderness.
2 responses
@lou1000 (1)
• United States
22 Nov 07
Hello, Patcon,
This may be long after you stopped looking for books about Alaska. (I saw your posting online at Amazon.com) "Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-Fishing and A River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska," which I recently wrote, is about a wildnerness trip down a river in Southwestern Alaska. It's also about how relationships between parents and children get tested, but the Alaska landscape is a major character in the book. It's available on amazon. All best, Lou
@vivienna (582)
• Venezuela
6 Jul 07
I didn't read the book you mention, but the most famous about Alaska and Yukon, are certainly Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang". Having as heroes a dog, respectively a wolf-dog hybrid, those novels develope the picture of the "Great Gold-rush", about from before 1900. I think you will enjoy these greatly!
@Patcon (80)
• Ireland
8 Jul 07
I'm glad you recommended them,I ordered them the day I posted the message. Just finished one on pioneering women during the gold rush, and another we thought was great, was one by by a scot who took a notion to live in Alaska for a year, and left his wife and babies, to do so, knowing nothing or no one. His book is Call of the wild:My escape to Alaska, by Guy Grieve. I found it on Amazon.
