One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Annivers
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: 26 Anv
- Author: Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke
- Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
- Release Date: June 2003
- ISBN-10: 0882405136
- ISBN-13: 9780882405131
- List Price: $16.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryTo live in a pristine land ... to roam the wilderness ... to choose a site, cut trees, and build a home ... Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. Here is a tribute to a man in tune with his surroundings who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
One man's wilderness
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Easy reading and extremely interesting! It sounds like the perfect paradise and to think that this man was so smart to be able to build this cabin from scratch with a minimum of tools; I don't think too many of today's carpenters could do that without all the power tools available today. It also goes to prove that we do not need all the extras that we have today to enjoy life. I know that when I am out snow shoeing in the middle of the woods, I sometimes stop and look around and say that if Heaven is any better than this, it must be something. To be able to do what he did is amazing and I envy him. Great book! I will be passing it along to others to read.
Ed
Excellent Read
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This book is well written, and reflects the time period very well. If you liked the videos of Preoneke's Alaskan years, you will love the book. This guy literally loved the solitude (as buffered by his interactions with the small game around his cabin), and "tamed" the wilderness by his exceptional skills and planning. This is not a book about survival, as he only considers the one incident of running headlong into a grizzly as a severe threat of death. His foresight, work ethic, and skill set made an Alaskan winter somewhat comfortable.
This book takes you into the mind of a man who was in control of himself, and a man who mastered many skills through a lifetime of learning. His description of the land, animals, and the construction of his cabin are outstanding. He also shares some deeper understanding of people, as he describes his links to the outside world, and his admiration for Babe, the bush pilot. This is a guy who saw the good and the practical in all he took in. Great read!
I really liked it
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This was a good book. I wish I'd known how much cheaper I could have bought it on Amazon...I paid $20 plus shipping on the DP site.
The only thing I didn't appreciate was the overlap between the movie and the book. The narration of the movie was literally taken from the book word for word so the whole time you're reading the book you feel like you've already read it.
Either way it was worth it.
a little bit boring
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I got this along with the DVD of the original show. It was OK but the visuals of the DVD made the book rather boring. However, I was quite pleased with the seller's prompt delivery and the very good condition of the purchase.
Awesome! Exactly as I had hoped.
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I had already bought and watched the movie many times over. The movie made me wonder what they were not showing, so I bought this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it! The book gave many more details that were not and probably could not have been shown in the movie. Since the book is written from Dick's journal it creates a more realistic view of what his life was really like alone in that little cabin. An absolute must read!
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