Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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pp. 28-29
Abstract
Sam Keith's account (One Man's Wilderness) is the story of Richard Proenneke's stay in the Alaskan wilderness during the late 1960s. Like John Rowland's (Cache Lake Country) it too earned a National Book Award in 1999. Also like Rowland's, Proenneke had dreamed since boyhood of living in the wilderness. Proenneke's time to do so came in 1968 when he hired a bush pilot to fly him into the Twin Lakes area near Port Alsworth, Alaska. There he built a small log cabin and established a homestead that would host him for 16 months and periodically over the next thirty years.
Recommended Citation
Yaple, Charles
(2008)
"Review of One Man's Wilderness,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 18:
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2, Article 12.
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