Book description
Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy while
reading Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. With a head
full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed
by his love of desolate and barren places, Brian Keenan sets out for
Alaska to discover its four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May
to snowfall in September, and en route, finds a land as fantastical as
a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure...
From dog-mushing on a frozen lake beneath the whirling colours of
the aurora borealis to camping in a two dollar tent in the tundra of
the arctic circle, Brian Keenan seeks out the ultimate wilderness
experience and along the way, encounters hard-core survivalists who
know what struggle and endurance mean from their daily battle with
nature to exist. He discovers that true wilderness is as much a state
of mind as it is a place. And ultimately to make Alaska home, one must
surrender to the land.
Brian Keenan is a writer and poet.
An Evil Cradling
, the story of his four years' captivity in Beirut, is recognized as a
non-fiction classic. He is also the author of a travel book,
Between Extremes
, with John McCarthy, and a novel,
Turlough
.
