Arctic Son: Fulfilling the Dream

by Jean Aspen

Overview

In 1992 Jean Aspen and her husband, Tom, took their young son to live in Alaska's interior wilderness, building a cabin out of logs, hunting for food, and letting the vast, harsh beauty of the Arctic close in around them. While Jean had faced Alaska's wilderness before — in a life-altering experience she chronicled in Arctic Daughter — this journey would be different. Dogged by sickness and hardships, cut off from the rest of the world, her family faced not only a test of endurance, but of its own well-being and survival....

From a daily struggle against the elements to an encounter with a grizzly bear at arm's length, from moments of breathtaking beauty and self-realization to a harrowing, six-hundred-mile river passage back to civilization, Arctic Son chronicles fourteen remarkable months in the Arctic. At once a portrait of courage and a heart-pounding adventure story, Arctic Son portrays a family's extraordinary journey into America's last frontier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882409207
Publisher:	Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/03/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	276
Sales rank:	212,647
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Daughter of arctic explorer Constance Helmericks, Jean Aspen began life in the wilderness. Throughout six decades, the natural world has remained central to her. Jean is the author of Arctic Daughter and Arctic Son. She and her husband, Tom Irons, live in Alaska and spend much of each year in Alaskan wilds.

Editorial Reviews

"Jean Aspen helps us believe in the power of our dreams . . . her description of the fragile but magnificent beauty of the Arctic and the life she found there grabs your heart until you start wondering if maybe it's time to leave it all behind and follow your own dreams."
Barbara Wieser, coauthor of Rivers Running Free: Stories of Adventurous Women

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