One Man’s Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

1999 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award
The 50th anniversary edition of the best-selling memoir brings back Richard Proenneke’s world of the Alaskan wilderness and what it truly means to live hand in hand with nature as one’s only companion.
In 1967, Richard Proenneke retreated to the untouched landscape of Twin Lakes to build a log cabin for himself and live alone in the wilderness for the next 30 years. From Richard’s journals with a personal friendship with the man himself, author Sam Keith penned the moving story of One Man’s Wilderness as a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond