Arctic Daughter : A Wilderness Journey (Revised ed)

From the author/filmmaker of Arctic Son: Fulfilling the dream and the book on which the Arctic Daughter: A Lifetime in the Wilderness documentary is based. Set in the Arctic wilderness of Alaska in the 1970s, here is an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and a lyrical odyssey.

This remarkable tale of survival and courage measures the value of dreams against the unforgiving realities of the natural world. Heading off in an overloaded canoe, a young couple journeyed down the Yukon River and walked upstream into the remote Brooks Range to build a cabin and live off the land.

She was twenty-two, daughter of a famous woman adventurer.

He was her childhood sweetheart. Four years later, they emerged from the Alaskan wilds.

Now in her sixties, Jean Aspen updates her spellbinding tale of adventure in a harsh and beautiful land for a new generation.

Arctic Daughter is at once an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and a lyrical odyssey.

A Reader's Digest book selection, this remarkable tale of survival and courage measures the value of dreams against the unforgiving realities of the natural world.