Braving it : a father, a daughter, and an unforgettable journey into the Alaskan wild

Resource Information

The work Braving it : a father, a daughter, and an unforgettable journey into the Alaskan wild represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Fulton County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.

Label

Braving it : a father, a daughter, and an unforgettable journey into the Alaskan wild

Title remainder

a father, a daughter, and an unforgettable journey into the Alaskan wild

Statement of responsibility

James Campbell

Creator

• Campbell, James, 1961-
• trueCampbell, James, 1961-

Author

• Campbell, James, 1961-

Subject

• trueAlaska -- Description and travel
• trueArctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) -- Description and travel
• trueBackpacking -- Alaska
• trueCampbell, Aidan, 1998- -- Travel -- Alaska
• trueCampbell, James, 1961- -- Travel -- Alaska
• trueCanoeing -- Alaska
• Canoes and canoeing -- Alaska
• Coming of age -- Alaska
• trueFathers and daughters -- Alaska -- Biography
• trueFathers and daughters -- Biography
• trueTravel Writing -- United States
• trueWilderness areas -- Alaska
• Wilderness areas -- Alaska
• trueWilderness survival -- Alaska
• Alaska -- Description and travel
• trueAdventure writing -- Adventure travel

Genre

• trueTravel Writing
• trueAdventure writing
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

"The powerful and affirming story of a father's journey with his teenage daughter to the far reaches of Alaska. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor, peeling and hauling logs? But once there, Aidan embraced the wild. She even agreed to return a few months later to help the Korths work their traplines and hunt for caribou and moose. Despite windchills of 50 degrees below zero, father and daughter ventured out daily to track, hunt, and trap. Under the supervision of Edna, Heimo's Yupik Eskimo wife, Aidan grew more confident in the woods. Campbell knew that in traditional Eskimo cultures, some daughters earned a rite of passage usually reserved for young men. So he decided to take Aidan back to Alaska one final time before she left home. It would be their third and most ambitious trip, backpacking over Alaska's Brooks Range to the headwaters of the mighty Hulahula River, where they would assemble a folding canoe and paddle to the Arctic Ocean. The journey would test them, and their relationship, in one of the planet's most remote places: a land of wolves, musk oxen, Dall sheep, golden eagles, and polar bears. At turns poignant and humorous, Braving It is an ode to America's disappearing wilderness and a profound meditation on what it means for a child to grow up--and a parent to finally, fully let go"--

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueDescriptive

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

917.98/04

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

F910.7.C36

LC item number

A3 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult