For sheer excitement and adventure, few novels match the true-life story of James Huntington. The son of a white trapper and Indian mother, Huntington learned early to fight for survival in Alaska's remote Kuskokwim region, where life was hard. Huntington's mother once walked 1,000 miles in the dead of winter to return to her family. Later, when she died, it fell to her son--then just seven--to care for his brother and sister. A courageous yet modest man, Huntington hunts wolves, fights bears, survives close calls too ...
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For sheer excitement and adventure, few novels match the true-life story of James Huntington. The son of a white trapper and Indian mother, Huntington learned early to fight for survival in Alaska's remote Kuskokwim region, where life was hard. Huntington's mother once walked 1,000 miles in the dead of winter to return to her family. Later, when she died, it fell to her son--then just seven--to care for his brother and sister. A courageous yet modest man, Huntington hunts wolves, fights bears, survives close calls too numerous to mention, and becomes the first musher to win the Anchorage and Fairbanks sled-dog race championships in the same year. On the Edge of Nowhere is an enduring Alaska classic, an astonishing story filled with surprising twists and turns and still "tingling with excitement," as a reviewer put it, in this third edition of an Alaska classic.
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The book didn't make it through the mail, but I did read a book by the author's brother recounting their youth and exploits. Based on that book, "Koyukuk", I expect "On the edge of nowhere" to be much better than the average rating I had to give a book that I haven't read.
The books are about the brother's lives in Alaska, as boys becoming men at an early age, learning to survive under harsh conditions as natives had for eons. I now have a .deep respect for the culture that native Alaskan's, including eskimos, developed before our current standards and luxuries.
dianne13@comcast.net
Oct 13, 2013
VERY INTERESTING, ENTICING STORY, HARD TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN.
