Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071DB8S8C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 135 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wayne A. Smith said Better than the Father - Daughter Dance. James Campbell tells the story of his making an indelible mark on his daughter over the course of three trips to Alaska in her fifteenth year.This book works as a father-daughter relationship book (somewhat) and as a glimpse of what living and travel above the Arctic Circle is like. The first two trips i. "A Great Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness" according to DalgalA Great Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness Dalgal46 My husband and I are taking our 12 and 14 year old grandchildren to Alaska for 2 weeks this summer. While we won't be roughing it in the wilderness like Aiden and her dad, this true story gave me an inside look at what it would be like to try to survive in the Arctic wild. I was very impressed at the cha. 6. My husband and I are taking our 12 and 1A Great Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness Dalgal46 My husband and I are taking our 12 and 14 year old grandchildren to Alaska for 2 weeks this summer. While we won't be roughing it in the wilderness like Aiden and her dad, this true story gave me an inside look at what it would be like to try to survive in the Arctic wild. I was very impressed at the cha. year old grandchildren to Alaska for 2 weeks this summer. While we won't be roughing it in the wilderness like Aiden and her dad, this true story gave me an inside look at what it would be like to try to survive in the Arctic wild. I was very impressed at the cha. Beautiful adventure story with many themes to explore Amazon Customer I read Braving It for my book club, and it proved to be a thought-provoking and illuminating read. Braving It made me reflect on how I was raising my own children and the kinds of opportunities that I would like to offer them in the wilderness. James Campbell gives his daughter Aidan the chance to push h
Despite windchills of 50 degrees below zero, father and daughter ventured out daily to track, hunt, and trap. 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.. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. 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. 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. 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 15-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him. It would be their third and most ambitious trip. She even agreed to return a few months later to help the Korths work their traplines and hunt for caribou and moose