Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska

Written by:
Rockwell Kent
Narrated by:
David Wales

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
3
Narrator
2
Release Date
January 2016
Duration
4 hours 43 minutes
Summary
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though an audiobook listener cannot, of course, see Kent's illustrations, the artist's eye is evident throughout the text.

Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska — Memoir of the fall and winter of 1918/19 painting and exploring with his eldest son – also Rockwell – on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay, Alaska (1920). (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)
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Dustin C

"Quiet" being the operative word. Wales' subdued narration of Kent's journal entries is Walden's equal in terms expressing the physicalities required of (provisioned) self-sufficiency, without the philosophical musings. Even for a lover of frontier stories, this one rang dull to me.

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