5/29/2023 0 Comments Braving It by James Campbell![]() ![]() Informative, humorous, and full of a love of nature. The journey would test them, and their relationship, in one of the planet’s most remote places: a land of wolves, musk oxen, Dall sheep, golden eagles, and polar bears.Ĭampbell expertly blends facts on the flora, fauna, and general life in the Alaskan bush with his reflections on being middle-aged, with many adventurous years behind him, as opposed to his daughter, whose quest for adventure has only just begun. It would be their third and most ambitious trip. ![]() So he decided to take Aidan back to Alaska one final time before she left home. ![]() Despite windchills of fifty degrees below zero, father and daughter ventured out daily to track, hunt, and trap.Ĭampbell knew that in traditional Eskimo cultures, some daughters earned a rite of passage usually reserved for young men. James Campbell Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild Kindle Edition by James Campbell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 521 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. She even agreed to return a few months later to help the Korths work their traplines and hunt for caribou and moose. ![]() Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and hauling logs?īut once there, Aidan embraced the wild. So when James Campbell’s cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him. Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. ![]()
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