Winner National Outdoor Book Award
'A work of outdoor literature of the highest order'

Survival of a frayed relationship,
says National Public Radio's Weekend Edition

'... a story that's lasting and splendid to behold.'
--Boston Globe

'This 'humble, honest odyssey touches and transforms the Alaska in us all.'
National Geographic Traveler

'An adventure to rekindle a relationship,'
says the Boston Globe'
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This book is a rarity: humble in its beauty, elegant in its reflection,' says the Anchorage Daily News
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'There are two adventures here, each in its own wilderness,' says the Keene Sentinel
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'Found in the wilderness'
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'These recollections ... are as heartfelt and
moving as Frank Conroy's classic "Stop-time," says the Maine Sunday Telegram

More praise from across the Literary World
"This is simply a fabulous book, as deep and true as the Alaskan waters that serve as its backdrop...It is warm and beautiful and so sweetly honest, a father fighting for his son, to know him, to regain him, in a way that will stay and linger long after the final page is turned.” – Buzz Bissinger, Friday Night Lights

"This is a very rich memoir: part outdoor adventure story, menacing bears and all; part travel book about the Alaskan outback..." – Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life

 "Ureneck's memoir has its own entirely distinctive flow of life...It's hard to write about fathers and sons - or rather, it is        hard for fathers and sons to write about one another. But Lou Ureneck has done it brilliantly.” – Lance Morrow, The Chief: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons