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An intense, quirky, and feverishly absorbing account of Leo's journey from urban conformity to a wilderness homestead in Alaska. Ten years ago, with little more than a dream, $900, and a game if wary girlfriend, Leo abandoned the safe path seemingly assured for Harvard-educated children of privilege in order to try to live "way out at the edges instead of just traveling through." Unfolding with almost hallucinogenic fervor, this is the intimate, often quite beautiful record of his improbable success. Starting out with virtually no survival skills, this latter-day "pilgrim" manages to master such anachronistic necessities as building a house from self-cut logs, handling a dog team, and climbing glacial peaks as he moves from N.Y.C. to ramshackle Talkeetna (pop. 200) and on his own ridge--with "no people or roads for a hundred square miles"--Nestled in the land below Mt. McKinley.
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Subtitle on cover: A man, a woman, a child in the Alaskan wilderness.
Originally published: New York : H. Holt, 1991.
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