Four Quarters Of Light. An Alaskan Journey.

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Doubleday
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 347 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Keenan Encounters Hard Core Survivalists Who Know What Struggle And Endurance Mean From Their Daily Battle For Existence. And Finally, He Discovers That True Wilderness Is As Much A State Of Mind As It Is A Place And That Ultimely, To Make Alaska Home, One Must Surrender To The Land.

Publishers Description: Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's life ever since.A short visit to Fairbanks several years ago was enough to seal his connection with the place and he resolved to return. Last year he did so with a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and heart informed with his own love of the desolate and barren places of the world. In the course of a journey that takes him through four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, he discovers a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure . . .

ISBN: 9780385603072