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Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and hauling logs? But once there, Aidan embraced the wild. She even agreed to return a few months later to help the Korths work their traplines and hunt for caribou and moose. Despite windchills of 50 degrees below zero, father and daughter ventured out daily to track, hunt, and trap. Campbell knew that in traditional Eskimo cultures, some daughters earned a rite of passage usually reserved for young men. So he decided to take Aidan back to Alaska one final time before she left home. It would be their third and most ambitious trip. The journey would test them, and their relationship, in one of the planet's most remote places: a land of wolves, musk oxen, Dall sheep, golden eagles, and polar bears.

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Campbell expertly blends facts on the flora, fauna, and general life in the Alaskan bush with his reflections on being middle-aged, with many adventurous years behind him, as opposed to his daughter, whose quest for adventure has only just begun. Informative, humorous, and full of a love of nature.-- Kirkus Campbell's prose captures both the difficulties and pleasures on offer in the extreme wild...Parents who enjoy Campbell's adventures vicariously might find themselves contemplating their own family outing. -- Richmond Times Dispatch Crisply detailed scenes are stacked with rural perils and pleasures, from treacherous canoeing, solitary fly-fishing and cabin building to grizzly bear threats and emotional nuance between a very loving parent and child. -- New York Times Mr. Campbell has set his daughter on the hero's journey and offered her the inviolable obligation of the parent: to show his child that she needs to save her own life and that she can. -- Wall Street Journal

"Campbell expertly blends facts on the flora, fauna, and general life in the Alaskan bush with his reflections on being middle-aged, with many adventurous years behind him, as opposed to his daughter, whose quest for adventure has only just begun. Informative, humorous, and full of a love of nature.-- ""Kirkus"" ""Campbell's prose captures both the difficulties and pleasures on offer in the extreme wild...Parents who enjoy Campbell's adventures vicariously might find themselves contemplating their own family outing."" -- ""Richmond Times Dispatch"" ""Crisply detailed scenes are stacked with rural perils and pleasures, from treacherous canoeing, solitary fly-fishing and cabin building to grizzly bear threats and emotional nuance between a very loving parent and child."" -- ""New York Times"" ""Mr. Campbell has set his daughter on the hero's journey and offered her the inviolable obligation of the parent: to show his child that she needs to save her own life and that she can."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"""

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James Campbell is the author of The Final Frontiersman, Braving It, and The Ghost Mountain Boys. He has written for Outside magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Men's Journal, and many other publications. He lives in Wisconsin. Roger Wayne hails from small-town Minnesota. He served in the Air Force as a broadcast journalist in South Korea. After doing plays in early college he earned an acting scholarship and obtained his BA in communications and journalism. He worked as an actor for two years in Minneapolis and then moved to NYC, where he continues to work in TV, film, theater, and voice-over. He has recorded for video games, animation, and commercials, and he loves making books come to life. Roger lives in New York City. You can see what he's up to at rogerwayne.com.

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