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“lynn schooler”

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  • Walking Home

    A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart

    by Lynn Schooler ...
    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 laboring 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, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Walking Home

    A Journey in the Alaskan Wilderness

    by Lynn Schooler ...
    The stirring memoir of one man's harrowing solo adventure in the Alaskan wilderness, and his discoveries about the home he leaves behind.'This is the best wilderness narrative I've read for a long time. The tension between nature at its most exquisite and most lethal makes this the story of our times. A remarkable book' Nicholas Crane, TV presenter and author of CoastIn the spring of 2007, hard on ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Wild Men, Wild Alaska

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  • The Final Frontiersman

    Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness

    by James Campbell ...
    The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the hit documentary series now on the Discovery+—James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an icily gripping, intimate profile that stands up well beside Krakauer’s classic [Into the Wild], and it stands too, as a kind of testament to the rough beauty of improbably wild dreams” (Men’s Journal) ... Read more

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  • Melozi

    A Teenager's Search for A Summer Job Lands Him An Adventure In The Alaska Bush

    by Michael Travis ...
    Would you send your teenager into the Alaska wilderness to work for people you never met? On June 9, 1973, 16-year-old Michael Travis put an advertisement in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner looking for work. What he got was more than he bargained for. Michael accepted an offer to help an older couple build a lodge at Melozi Hot Springs—a remote camp north of the Yukon River. The couple is shocked ... Read more

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  • Running North

    A Yukon Adventure

    by Ann Mariah Cook ...
    What happens when a woman and her husband move their family from New Hampshire to Alaska to train a team of purebred Siberian Huskies for the world's toughest dogsled race, the Yukon Quest? They endure thousands of miles of lonely training in the Yukon trying to avoid thin ice, wolves, and rogue moose; they put up with the amused skepticism of Alaskan locals; and they pit themselves against the ... Read more

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  • Trapping the Boundary Waters

    A Tenderfoot in the Border Country, 1919-1920

    by Charles Ira Cook, Jr. ...
    Series series Midwest Reflections
    On May 4, 1919, Charlie Cook set off for a year of adventure in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters. Soon abandoned by his comfort-loving companion, the restless World War I veteran spent an enlightening year learning—often the hard way—how to paddle and sail on windy lakes, hunt and fish for food, bake "rough delicacies" in a reflector oven, and build winter-proof shelters. His how-to ... Read more

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  • The Cabin

    A Search for Personal Sanctuary

    by Hap Wilson ...
    One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes, fast flowing rivers, mystery and adventure. Newcomb befriended the local Aboriginals -- the Deep Water ... Read more

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  • The Golden Spruce

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    by John Vaillant ...
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  • Wilderness Tales: Adventures in the Backcountry

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    These true stories of people who work and live in the spectacular mountain wilderness of Alberta and British Columbia are filled with humour, keen observations about man and nature, and memorable human and animal characters. Old-time cowboys Johnny and Cal offer their no-nonsense brand of homespun wisdom. Wasp, the talented saddle horse, teaches his rider more than just horsemanship. From life-and ... Read more

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  • Reluctant Pioneer

    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    by Thomas Osborne ...
    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Read more

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