Two in the Far North
10 best books like Two in the Far North (Margaret E. Murie): Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild, Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness, Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind, Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul, Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, The Singing Wilderness, A Place In The Woods, More Readings From One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
| Author | Porter Fox |
| ISBN | 0393357090 |
America’s northern border is the world’s longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America’s primary border for centuries—much of the early history of the United States took place there—and to the tens of millions who live and work...
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.
Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia,...
| Author | Anne LaBastille |
| ISBN | 0140153349 |
Many have dreamed of building a cabin in the wilderness and living there alone in the solitude of a region that is far from civilization. Here is the unusual story of a young wildlife ecologist who has done just that. When her marriage ended in divorce, Anne LaBastille bought twenty-two acres of virgin...
This is not the best written book, but buckle your seat belt, this true story is a heck of a ride. Sidney Huntington is a native Alaskan. Born in the early 20th century, he has seen the tremendous changes of modernization from the standpoint of a subsistance living aboriginal. The story of his life not only...
| Author | Ivan Doig |
| ISBN | 0156899825 |
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who...
| Author | Scott Weidensaul |
| ISBN | 0865476888 |
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
| Author | Pete Fromm |
| ISBN | 0312422725 |
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
| Author | Sigurd F. Olson |
| ISBN | 0816629927 |
Sigurd F. Olson was for more than thirty years a wilderness guide in the Quetico-Superior country, and no one knew with the same intimacy the mysteries of the lakes and forests of that magnificent primitive area. To the many out-of-doorsmen who canoed and portaged with him through this wilderness,...
| Author | Helen Hoover |
| ISBN | 0816631298 |
Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.
A...
More Readings From One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980
| Author | Richard Proenneke |
| ISBN | 0160729947 |
Richard L. Proenneke--a modern-day Henry David Thoreau--built a cabin in Twin Lakes, Alaska, during the spring of 1968, sparking thirty years of personal growth in which he spent the majority of his time strengthening his relationship with the wilderness around him. Following in the footsteps of...
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with...
