Ms. Jean Aspen

Jean Aspen, daughter of Arctic explorer and author Constance Helmericks, began life in the wilderness. Throughout six decades, the natural world has remained central to her.What began as letters to their son, Lucas, when she and her husband, Tom Irons, set out to search for a different future, evolved over the seasons into many snapshots of her remarkable life. Seemingly random threads weave a tapestry of her journey, circling always back to the river that flows by their cabin in Alaska's wild...See more

Jean Aspen, daughter of Arctic explorer and author Constance Helmericks, began life in the wilderness. Throughout six decades, the natural world has remained central to her.What began as letters to their son, Lucas, when she and her husband, Tom Irons, set out to search for a different future, evolved over the seasons into many snapshots of her remarkable life. Seemingly random threads weave a tapestry of her journey, circling always back to the river that flows by their cabin in Alaska's wild Brooks Range. In Trusting the River, Aspen closes the story of her mother's books and her own early works, Arctic Daughter and Arctic Son. See less