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Cargando... The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness (2004)por James Campbell
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I am a fan of the show “The Last Alaskans”, and Heimo Korth is one of the featured Alaskans. When I heard of this book, I just had to read it, and I’m so glad I did! It was most interesting and informative, and the book gives the reader a real-life view of how to live as a frontiersman in Alaska. Highly recommend this book. ( ) This book shows an honest perspective of how difficult it is to live in Alaska. I have read several books about Alaska and this is the first that paints a loving, devoting, grueling, and exhausting portrait. People like Heimo are rare to find these days and I think he can be an inspiration to everyone to focus more on family and nature and less on technology. I was surprised how much I liked Heimo because I stereotyped him as a rugged brute outdoorsman, but in reality is a loving father and husband. Despite living in Alaska I am at my core a city girl, I like pavement and crowds, love the energy of cities. That made relating to Heimo and his family very difficult for me, much of the story just made me cringe. It is however an interesting and well written book about a person and a moment in our history that is unlikely to ever happen again. I recommend it to anyone who has ever looked toward the wilderness and thought "What if..." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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). Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his twenties. Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization--a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily existence. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family's amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular, at times unimaginable detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo's heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at 44 degrees below zero--all the while cultivating the hard-learned survival skills that stand between them and a terrible fate. Awe-inspiring and memorable, The Final Frontiersman reads like a rustic version of the American Dream and reveals for the first time a life undreamed by most of us: amid encroaching environmental pressures, apart from the herd, and alone in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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