One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Annivers

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        One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (AnniversTo live in a pristine land . . . roam the wilderness . . . build a home. . . . Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. Here is a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond.

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Alaskan Dream! by Salmoneye
This book is great! As close to the wilderness as you can get. If you find you can never make it to Alaska, read this and you can say how close you were.

The Journey by Anna E. Perry
One Man’s Wilderness; ….. Well written, entertaining , I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adventure in beautiful Alaskan Wilderness …..

Very inspiring book by Mini Ron
Excellent book to read. I believe everyone will enjoy this and the story of this amazing person. Easy to read diary-like story of Dick Proenneke’s 16-month life alone in a beautiful wilderness of Alaska. Page by page you’ll be thrilled to continue on reading and it even gets better at the end. You’ll probably stand up and clap your hands to this amazing man.

Inspirational Journey by Searching for the Truth
Sometimes you have to do what you need to do solo to get what you want from life. An inspirational journey into ones limits and dreams.

One Man’s Wilderness by Sam Adams
This book is written “by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke” - so although I read it and visualized the events within as if it had all been written by Richard Proenneke, it wasn’t. Sam Keith tells us in the preface: “Using Dick Proenneke’s rough journals as a guide, and knowing him as well as I did, I have tried to get into his mind and reveal the “flavor” of the man. This is my tribute to him, a celebration of his being in tune with his surroundings and what he did alone with simple tools and ingenuity in carving his masterpiece out of the beyond.”

I’ve seen the PBS presentation of “Alone in the Wilderness”, which uses selections from the text of this book along with movie footage of Proenneke building his cabin and living there. Those selections are read by someone other than Proenneke, but the voice is a perfect fit to the text and image. Because the text is not exactly Proenneke’s and the voice of the video isn’t his either, our experience of the man is filtered though these interpreations. Sam Keith hasn’t shown us any unedited examples from the “rough journals” he used to compose the book, so it’s difficult to know how far this beautifully crafted language matches the character and psychology of Richard Proenneke.

It is an extraordinary book and was a great pleasure to read. I recommend it without reservation.

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