Our Alaskan Winter - Couverture souple

Helmericks, Constance

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 194189044X ISBN 13 : 9781941890448

Editeur : Epicenter Press (WA), 2021

Synopsis

Our Alaskan Winter continues the story of husband and wife Bud and Connie Helmericks' adventures in the Arctic. That winter they lived a nomadic life with the Eskimos, hunting caribou inland and then sea mammals out on the ice in the spring. When spring again came, they migrated eastward with the Eskimo in their big skin boat with their canoe towed. From the Natives, they learned ice fishing for seals, how to track down polar bears, how to sled for provisions. They had fashioned runners for the small canoe, and when they left their friends, they continued east, paddling, sailing and sometimes pulling it over pack ice as they made their way east to the Mackenzie River delta in Canada. There they ended their odyssey with a flight to Edmonton, Canada in September.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

In 1942, at the age of twenty-four, Constance Helmericks and herhusband, Bud Helmericks, paddled into the Alaskan wilds to liveoff the land. Over the next decade, Connie wrote five bestsellingbooks on their adventures, and co-filmed and produced threedocumentaries with Bud. Their work was shown on national lecturetours, and was twice featured in LIFE magazine, including the cover.In her later books, Connie wrote of her wilderness journeys acrossCanada and around Australia with her young daughters, Jean andAnn Helmericks. She became an early environmental activist, walkingmuch of the Pacific Crest trail alone while in her sixties.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Epicenter Press (WA)
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 194189044X
• ISBN 13: 9781941890448
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible