Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey Into the Alaskan Wild

Author:   James Campbell ,  Roger Wayne
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
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Publication Date:   30 April 2017
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Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey Into the Alaskan Wild


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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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Author:   James Campbell ,  Roger Wayne
Publisher:   Tantor Audio
Imprint:   Tantor Audio
ISBN:  

9781665274876


ISBN 10:   1665274875
Publication Date:   30 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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 a native of Wisconsin. He received his B.A. from Yale University and M.A. from the University of Colorado. He has written adventure travel, environmental, and military history pieces for Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Islands, Backpacker, Audubon, Coastal Living, Field and Stream, Sports Afield, Military History and many other magazines and newspapers. He is the author of several books, including The Final Frontiersman, which won one of two nonfiction prizes at the 2006 Midwest Booksellers Choice. Roger Wayne served in the Air Force as a radio and television broadcast journalist in South Korea and won several awards before obtaining a BA degree in communications and journalism. He is an actor living in New York, narrating audiobooks, working on independent film projects, performing off Broadway, and auditioning for major network shows.

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