Review: Good book with captivating story line.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2013
I enjoyed this book. As an aviation and wilderness survival buff this book was of interest to me. The author obviously knows a lot about the C124, such as the possibility of crawling through the wings while in flight. Similarly they seem to know a fair bit about the Alaskan wilderness.The story line is straight forward, no massive challenges. There were some weird bits such as when Smitty, keen on getting out of the wilderness and back home, suddenly seems to accept his fate. Similarly, when Tom finds the ruins of a cabin, he just accepts that he can not cross a river to reach it. These minor concerns aside, the book was good reading, and enjoyable. It is a fairly modern tale of survival, and love in the Alaskan wilderness.I suspect that I've read a cleaned up version of the book, as there are only a few spelling and grammatical errors which don't greatly detract from the book.Having re-read a few bits, I think this one deserves a 5 star because the story line is so plausible, and for being an easy but still very enjoyable read.If you enjoyed Jack London's "Call of the Wild", liked reading about Christopher McCandless and enjoy wilderness survival stories, you should enjoy this one. Though I do point out that is is not so much a survival story, because it has some romance thrown in there too.