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Indian Creek Chronicles: : A Winter Alone in the Wilderness (Copy)
Buy At AmazonIndian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, 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 adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West’s premier voices. Fun, adventurous, funny, and sensitive read. While this book is now several decades old, it stands up, entertains, and enlightens.
“Honest, lyrical, and full of a kind of an ineffable wonder. Anyone who has ever loved a place truly will surely love this book.”–Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
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Indian Creek Chronicles: : A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
Buy At AmazonIndian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, 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 adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West’s premier voices. Fun, adventurous, funny, and sensitive read. While this book is now several decades old, it stands up, entertains, and enlightens.
“Honest, lyrical, and full of a kind of an ineffable wonder. Anyone who has ever loved a place truly will surely love this book.”–Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greely
Buy At AmazonLucy Grealy’s childhood cancer left her with a facial disfigurement. For everyone who has ever felt inadequate, Autobiography of a Face provides an unsentimental experience that challenges our own feelings of not measuring up. A ground-breaking memoir of self. Lucy Grealy (1963-2002) was an award-winning poet and a memoirist. In addition to Autobiography of a Face, she was the author of the essay collection As Seen on TV: Provocations.
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The Earth is Enough
Buy At AmazonLoss bookends Middleton’s memoir, yet the story of old men connected to an Earth they love embeds in the reader’s love for something we may not know. But we want to. Fall in love with Middleton (now gone): fall in love with the Earth (perilously hanging on).
- Everyone I’ve gifted this book to has called me, sometimes years later when they got around to reading it, to say ‘Wow, this book is great.”
- Middleton’s coming-of-age memoir salutes old men with a reverence for the gifts from the Earth.
