Braving It, James Campbell
Braving It, James Campbell
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Braving It
A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild

Author: James Campbell

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/30/2017

Synopsis

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. 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: 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?

But once there, Aidan embraced the wild. She even agreed to return a few months later to help the Korths work their traplines and hunt for caribou and moose. Despite windchills of 50 degrees below zero, father and daughter ventured out daily to track, hunt, and trap.

Campbell knew that in traditional Eskimo cultures, some daughters earned a rite of passage usually reserved for young men. So he decided to take Aidan back to Alaska one final time before she left home. It would be their third and most ambitious trip. 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.

About James Campbell

James Campbell is a native of Wisconsin. He received his B.A. from Yale University and M.A. from the University of Colorado. He has written adventure travel, environmental, and military history pieces for Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Islands, Backpacker, Audubon, Coastal Living, Field and Stream, Sports Afield, Military History and many other magazines and newspapers. He is the author of several books, including The Final Frontiersman, which won one of two nonfiction prizes at the 2006 Midwest Booksellers Choice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carlos on February 25, 2017

they say a book is good when it draws you into the story in a way that makes the story yours, as if you lived it too. This book achieved that for me ...I felt like i was the one hiking in the Alaskan wilderness, like i was the one kayaking in the hula-hula River along Aidan and James, I was able to......more

Goodreads review by Dorine on May 12, 2016

Rated 4.5 - An excellent adventure memoir, BRAVING IT by James Campbell describes three thrilling expeditions into the Alaskan arctic wild with his daughter. It’s not just the individual journeys that are thrilling but the fact that a father and his fifteen-year-old daughter willingly went three tim......more

Goodreads review by Marjorie on June 22, 2016

It takes a certain kind of person to want to face the perils and hardships of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Grizzly bears, polar bears, wolverines, wolves and extremely bitter cold weather would soon make anyone hesitant to explore the area. But none of that deters James Campbell or his......more

Goodreads review by Angie on March 25, 2016

There are so many reasons to love this book. I have read a lot of adventure travel memoirs and this was one of my favorites. Braving It is a beautifully written book about a father who elects to take his 15 year old daughter into the Alaskan bush. Once there, they have multiple adventures and the re......more

Goodreads review by Randal on May 06, 2016

Campbell has penned a wonderful book about the bonding that occurred when he took his teenage daughter into the Alaskan wilderness on several trips. Not just any trip, but ones that involved building a cabin, spending a month on a trap line in the dead of winter, and hiking/canoeing an extremely di......more

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