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Walking Home
A Journey in the Alaskan Wilderness
Taschenbuch von Lynn Schooler
Sprache: Englisch

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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 Coast

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 labouring 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, travelling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America.

Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travellers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others.

In Walking Home Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, and investigates, with elegance and soul, what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.
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 Coast

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 labouring 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, travelling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America.

Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travellers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others.

In Walking Home Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, and investigates, with elegance and soul, what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.
Über den Autor
Lynn Schooler
Zusammenfassung
Lynn Schooler is one of today's most exquisite writers. He gets universally glowing reviews.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: 262 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408817704
ISBN-10: 1408817705
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schooler, Lynn
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 196 x 129 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Lynn Schooler
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2011
Gewicht: 0,205 kg
preigu-id: 128468607
Über den Autor
Lynn Schooler
Zusammenfassung
Lynn Schooler is one of today's most exquisite writers. He gets universally glowing reviews.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 272
Inhalt: 262 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408817704
ISBN-10: 1408817705
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schooler, Lynn
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 196 x 129 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Lynn Schooler
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2011
Gewicht: 0,205 kg
preigu-id: 128468607
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