Customer Reviews

The Silence of the North,

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A fresh, uncomplicated tale of the people who adventured north in the past. Action packed, engaging and reveling, this book will remain for ever one of my favorite adventure and romance stories. It shows much about how people may face a foreign environment, difficulties, and above all themselves. All comes out in very simple and clear language, with suits the story and the characters divinely.

This was a favorite, and it was done with no bad words or violence, other than from nature, I loved it and still wonder what happened to Olive and her second husband after they were married and flew off in the airplane. I watch it everytime it comes on tv. I have taped it and shown it many times to company.

I loved this book. Very interesting, exciting reading; great for a winter curl-up-by-the-fire book. I especially liked the way Mrs. Fredrickson told, simply and plainly, her story of life in an incredibly harsh North. Some of her experiences were basic survival, and I don't know how she did it. I would recommend this story to anyone who wants to "get out of the rut" of reading the same old thing. It was fabulous! I will read it again and again.

A story of a courageous strong woman. Descriptions of the environment (land & conditions) enticing. I found myself being scared right along side of Olive. A real adventure story.

IF YOU FEEL SORRY FOR YOUR LOT IN LIFE..READ THIS..ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I EVER READ...

Wow-this book was so fun and sad and interesting to read, all at the same time. Olive's story is piercing and makes one ponder the amazing will to live in the face of such overwhelming odds. A fantastic true adventure story!

The clear, unsparing, joyously unsentimental truth of Olive Frederickson's nearly total recall of her long years of struggle for survival in the Canadian north woods -- a young widow with three children after only eight years of marriage, facing starvation, walking miles in snow to shoot a moose for meat to live through the winter, shooting bears, enduring incredible adventures and hardships that makes her narrative so special, a reading experience ... her book is absolutely compelling, "natur writing without quarter and always human. - Publishers weekly

I greatly enjoyed the book, a true story of a young girl's, wife's, mother's and widow's hard life in the Yukon.

The book wasn't in quite the good shape I expected, however; with yellow pages making it difficult to read. Although I bought this book through Amazon, it came from a private party, I believe.

This is by far my favorite adventure story. I have read at least fifty and none can come close to this. It is the only one that I have read more than once and I have read it three times!

Olive Fredricksen's modesty in these recollections is perhaps the most moving element in her account of struggling through appalling forces of nature to bring about her survival, and that of her young children. Both her inner and her physical strengths and ingenuity were of the highest order and would ordinarily be called incredible. Except that in this case the word is correct and justifiably applied.