FOUR CORNERS OF LIGHT - AN ALASKAN JOURNEY - 2005

'An excellent travelogue....full of one-off characters vividly brought to life....an engaging and articulate book that does much to illuminate America's Last Frontier.'

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 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 lthe 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.

This 445 page softcover is illustrated with colour photographs.  The cover has a couple of small, light marks, but spine is uncreased and internally it is in an excellent, tight, clean condition. 

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