Four Quarters of Light - An Alaskan Journey

Informationen zum Autor Brian Keenan Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy. With a head full of questions about its landscape and a heart informed by his love of desolate and barren places, he sets out for Alaska, to discover its four geographical quarters, from snowmelt to snowfall. He ultimately finds that to make Alaska a home, one must surrender to the land.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Keenan
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780552999731
• ISBN: 978-0-552-99973-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 199 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, Travel writing, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Arctic regions