Book description
Thirty years ago, celebrated American writer Edward Hoagland, in
his early fifties and already with a dozen acclaimed books under his
belt, had a choice: a midlife crisis or a midlife adventure. He chose
the adventure.
Pencil and notebook at the ready, Hoagland set out to explore
and write about one of the last truly wild territories remaining on
the face of the earth: Alaska. From the Arctic Ocean to the Kenai
Peninsula, the backstreet bars of Anchorage to the Yukon River,
Hoagland traveled the real” Alaska from top to bottom. Here he
documents not only the flora and fauna of America's last frontier, but
also the extraordinary people living on the fringe. On his journey he
chronicles the lives of an astonishing and unforgettable array of
prospectors, trappers, millionaire freebooters, drifters, oilmen,
Eskimos, Indians, and a remarkably kind and capable frontier nurse
named Linda. In his foreword, novelist Howard Frank Mosher describes
Edward Hoagland's memoir as the best book ever written about
America's last best place.”
In the tradition of Twain's Life on the Mississippi and Jonathan
Rabin's Old Glory, with a beautiful love story at its heart, this is
an American masterpiece from a writer hailed by the Washington Post as
the Thoreau of our times.”
