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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness
by Campbell, James

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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness: Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Korth came to Alaska in his twenties and he never left. Across the years, he's carved out a subsistence life like no other – a life bounded by the migrating caribou herds, by the dangers of suddenly swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily survival.

Journalist James Campbell has spent two years documenting the lives of Heimo, his wife, Edna, and their teenage daughters, Rhonda and Krin, and he paints their portraits in vivid detail: evenings listening to the distant voices from the radio's Trapline Chatter show; months spent waiting for the odd small plane to bring supplies; years relying on hard-learned hunting and survival skills that are all that stand between the family and a terrible fate. But it's a complicated existence, too, of encroaching environmental pressures and the fear that this life might be disappering forever – and how will his two teenage daughters react when on e of them goes back to “civilization” for her high school years?

But always at the center there's Heimo Korth, a man who escaped a tough father and a circumscribed life, then reinvented himself in the Alaskan wilderness, only to witness the most unbearable of tragedies, a tragedy that keeps him and his family tied to this inhospitable and beautiful land forever.

By turns inspiring and downright jolting, James Campbell's extraordinary book reads like a rustic version of American Dream – and reveals for the very first time a life undreamed of by most of us, outside the mainstream, alone in a stunning wilderness that for now, at least, remains the final frontier.

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Price:	CDN$ 37.50 (US$ 36.49)

ISBN-10:	0743453131
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780743453134
Author:	Campbell, James
Publisher:	Atria Books New York
Publication Date:	5/2004
Pages:	320 pages
Size/Dimensions:	1.25 x 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Binding:	Hardcover

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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wildernessby Campbell, James

The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness
by Campbell, James