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This best-selling memoir from Richard Proenneke's journals and with firsthand knowledge of his subject and the setting, Sam Keith has woven a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man . . . to roam a wilderness through which few other humans has passed . . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees by hand, and build a log cabin. . . to be self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts, dreams and company. Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. This book is a moving account of the day-to-day explorations and activities Dick carried out alone....alone in the wilderness...and the constant chain of nature's events that kept him company.
Anonymous
Posted Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2006
Best book ever. Not only did Dick live within nature, he became part of it. He lives the way I wish we all would-respect for the land, taking only what he needed from it in order to survive and leaving only his footprints. DVD is good too...book is better.
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Posted Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2008
I am so inspired by this man's willingness and ability to live alone in the wilderness as he did. I seldom ever read a book more than once but I have to admit that I have read this one three times now--he brings remote Alaska into your living room with his detailed descriptions.
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Posted Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2008
One man¿s wilderness is great book about self potential and discovery. A man who has a dream and goes to reach it with success. For a man in his 50¿s to leave his job, family, and what he knows to build a cabin in Alaska and be self sufficient, I greatly admire Richard, I wish I could do what he did. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Posted Fri Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2013
After living in Alaska for over 5 years, and spending quite a bit of time in the Lake Clark region, this book enthralled me as much as my new home does.
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Posted Sat Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
Being someone who is allready sick and tired of the direction humanity is taking, reading this book simply propels my desire to leave it all behind. Dick P. is truely an inspiration to the hermit wannabe.
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Posted Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2009
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Reading Dick Proenneke's amazing decision to go to Alaska, build a cabin, and live with the land was awe inspiring. It's 41yrs later and Mr. Proenneke has been laid to rest. But reading this book brings him alive. It inspires one to reach past the yolk of our existence. He was a man among men and he really understood what is important. He gets that what we Want and what we Need are two different things.
I love this book. I'll be keeping it for as long as I live.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.If you are interested in what it would be like to make your life in the woods, build your own cabin, and have a life of solitude and communing with nature, this is a great book for you. Not so much a book, as a series of well thought out journal entries, the author doesn't wax poetic or get too philosophical. He simply tells it like it is. How to build a cabin, how he gathered food and spent his days. Although he's not a colorful nature writer like Edward Abbey or Aldo Leopold, he brings you into this wonderful place with him and makes you feel as though anybody with a desire to homestead could live the good life in Alaska. His simple candor is a refreshing change in a world full of overly wordy books for deep thinkers on the subject of communing with nature.
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Posted Fri Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2013
If you have seen "Alone in the Wilderness" you will definitely enjoy this book. If you haven't seen any of the documentary movies, the book is enjoyable on it's own. It reads as a journal with a bit of humor sprinkled throughout.
They way this man calmly dealt with the adverse conditions of the frozen North and built his own castle in the wilderness using nothing but hand tools and almost exclusively the materials he found on location is an inspiration.
Anonymous
Posted Sat Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2013
Enjoyable read, makes one dream about packing up, moving to the wilderness and leaving everything behind
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Posted Sun Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2014
Great read one that you will want to read over and over
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Posted Sat Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2012
An outstanding read! Engaging writing style, describing in first person an amazing odyssey by one man who chose a very different path later in life. Wilderness lovers will adore this book. Nook format is easy to read, handles well on the device. Pictures look great, too.
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Posted Mon Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2012
author puts you right there as he was going thru the wilderness...
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Posted Mon Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2011
This book was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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Posted Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2009
This was one of the most inspiring stories of self sufficiency. This man was absolutely amazing. To actually do what he has done took much forethought and planning. He was brilliant in a way that I am envious of. Easy to read. It was like connecting with a good friend when I picked up the book. I am looking forward to reading the next one about this interesting man.
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Posted Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2009
The book was an informative and interesting account of a mans year in the Alaskan wilderness living off of the land and using natural materials to get what he needs. It's written as a daily log of the mans activities so it's interesting to read about his inginuity and ability to improvise but I didn't find the book very entertaining, informative/intersting, not entertaining.
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Posted Fri Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2008
Wonderful book,,,great way to live. Ohhhh that there were places like that now!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted Tue Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2006
To me it brings back the time I spent in Alaska. What a place! What a journey!!
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Posted Tue Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2005
awesome book, i admire what he did.one day maybe i'll do what he did.the book was so detailed with information,it makes you feel like your in the wilderness.i read the book up in the adirondack mts,and it made my trip that much better.thanks
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Posted Wed Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2005
If you like the outdoors and enjoy places untouched by modern civilization, you must read this book. I also saw the DVD and it was absolutley incredible. What a guy, and to have lived out his dreams in the wild...all of the things he endured, all the hard work - but what a payoff to live in such a place! I highly recommend reading this book and watching the DVD if possible. There is excellent footage!
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Posted Wed Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2004
It's a primal thing to return to the wild and make one's peace with it, live among it; there is a cleansing quality to such an endeavour, and it takes will and belief to make it happen. After a while, no matter how beautiful the view, isolation tends to send people on a sight-seeing tour of their soul. And that's what makes this book very worthwhile indeed. To see how far out there a person's mind can go, I highly recommend you check out IN THE GHOST COUNTRY, about a real-life journey to the bottom of the world in the company of ghosts. Awesome.
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This best-selling memoir from Richard Proenneke's journals and with firsthand knowledge of his subject and the setting, Sam Keith has woven a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man . . . to roam a wilderness through which few other humans has passed . . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees by hand, and build a log cabin. . . to be self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world,...