Arctic Daughter [Mass Market Paperback]

Jean Aspen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 3, 1993

The child of a famous female explorer describes her own journey down the Yukon to the Chandalar River with her childhood sweetheart, recounting their experiences living off the land in the remote Brooks Range. Reprint. PW.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Laurel (July 3, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440214491
• ISBN-13: 978-0440214496
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Books > Travel > Polar Regions > Arctic

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Amazing Adventure, February 28, 2001

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Karen D. Somers (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arctic Daughter (Mass Market Paperback)

I highly recommend this book for those who love true adventure stories. This is a rare and unique one. While I would not rate this book a 5-star simply on the basis of the writing, as sometimes I find descriptive language to linger too long, I must give it an overall 5 stars due to its amazing content and intriguing story of a woman who dared to follow her dreams into one of the last wildernesses remaining on Earth. Jean Aspen went where few dare to go, and she did it as a college-aged young woman. The reader is amazed at the matter-of-factness of her descriptions of pushing off of the bank into the mighty Yukon River, alone with a boyfriend and a puppy in an unweildy overladen canoe. Have they packed all the necessities to live a year alone in the Alaskan bush? Will they really be able to find a site and build a cabin before winter? Will they survive despite Aspen's own admission that there odds at making it through the winter are perhaps 50/50? And obviously, though you know they make it somehow, you constantly want to know HOW? What was it like to live through a dark deathly-cold winter on the edge of the Arctic Circle, under the Brooks Range in a cabin built by two with no outside help? What does Alaska's bush really look like? What does it FEEL like to be out there alone? What are they going to eat? How will they stay warm? Don't read ahead! This is truly an adventure few have ever lived to tell about. Descriptions of the sights, sounds and emotions are beautiful.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A ture wilderness journey into the unknown, August 31, 1998

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Geoff Peddicord (Missoula, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arctic Daughter: A Wilderness Journey (Hardcover)

I was at a friends house when I first picked up Arctic Daughter by Jean Aspen. I sat down and started to read the first few pages, two hours later it was time to go home and I was still reading this book. My friends were kind enough to let me borrow the book and I finished it the next day. I returned the book to my friends and went directly to the book store and ordered it. I was told it was out of print and I was very upset. I then spent about two weeks searching to find a copy of Arctic Daughter and I was lucky enough to find a new copy. I gave it to my wife and she also read it in one day. This book takes the reader to a place that many people will never see. The courage and spirit of true adventure in Jean Aspen prevails in this book and it is a shame it is out of print. I would encourage any person who has the dream of "chucking" it all away in order to live a life more simple to pick up a copy of this book. It is the real deal and puts the adventurers' life in a new perspective. A must read!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME true stoy!, April 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Arctic Daughter (Mass Market Paperback)

This is an incredible adventure story written in in a very descriptive manner. It's unbelievable what we can endure if we put our minds to it. This is a MUST READ!