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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. “We all need to know that, somewhere, it’s still possible to lose ourselves in the wilderness.” Invigorating, emboldening, and beautifully written. The Sun is a Compass presents a perfect blend of adventure/travelogue, personal memoir, and scientific observation as Van Hemert reflects on her youth, her relationships with her family members and spouse, and her stunning achievement in trekking 4,000 miles from the Washington coast to the Alaskan Arctic. Van Hemert’s journey and rediscovery of her passion for nature and ornithology is harrowing and breathtaking as she reflects on the stifling she’s begun to feel in a lab environment and contemplates the future that awaits her husband and herself. The wilds of the North that she experiences and describes are stunning in their stark splendor, unfathomable vastness, and unflinching indifference towards human life, all of which add to the sheer exhilaration of the journey. A thoughtful exposition, a remarkable story, and without a doubt a book worth savoring. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be in the mountains. This is a great nature travel adventure story. The author and her husband go from Vancouver Sound, up to and along the Yukon all the way to the Arctic Ocean, then along the coast and eventually down through the Brooks Range, to Kotzebue, in Western Alaska. What an epic journey! It is a huge trip over amazing terrain. They have some crazy experiences along the way, especially watching migrating caribou. They seem to have been extremely lucky with the weather, and lucky in general---until the very end, when their resupply flight is delayed by four days by weather, when they were carrying zero days off extra rations. The writing is nice and straightforward, not too ambitious but it serves the story fine. There's a bit of TMI. I don't particularly care about her story of falling in love, nor about her sex life. She learns about herself along the way, thinking about her career and about children. This wasn't very suspenseful, though. She is seriously into birds, and we learn about them along the way. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Documents the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where she and her husband tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections.
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012 she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, the book explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of creatures whose daily survival is nothing short of miraculous. It is a journey through the heart, the mind, and some of the wildest places left in North America. In the end, The Sun Is a Compass is a love letter to nature, an inspiring story of endurance, and a beautifully written testament to the resilience of the human spirit. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But we do love a good adventure story. This book has that down, which allowed me to live vicariously through Caroline Van Hemert and her husband, Patrick. I didn't find the author insufferable as can happen when an outdoor enthusiast speaks to an indoor introvert such as myself. Van Hemert is also a biologist who has studied birds, so not only did we learn about what it takes to camp in the Alaskan wilds, but we also learned about the birds and other wildlife (bears!) along the way.
Along the way, the author looks back on her life and her relationship with her husband and ponders her future. I appreciate sharing that journey with her, and there is a nice surprise in the afterword.
I also appreciated the photos included with the ebook. What a beautiful place! That I will never visit! But I can in a book!
Here are some recommendations of other books:
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Out of Africa by Isak Dinseson ( )