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description: I live in the sunlight of friends and the shadows of glaciers.So begins The Only Kayak Kim Heacoxs coming-of-middle-age memoir written in the tradition of Edward Abbey John McPhee and Henry David Thoreau with a voice at times tender irate funny and deeply humane. In it he asks what does it mean to fall in love with a place that cannot stay the same? When do you hold on? When do you let go? Born in Idahos Bitterroot Mountains and raised in Spokane Washington Heacox moves to Alaska as a young park ranger and discovers a land and sea newly reborn from beneath a retreating glacier. People are reborn here too he writes. This place is that powerful. In Glacier Bay you dont inherit you create. You practice resurrection because the land and sea show you that anything is possible. Moose swim across fiords. Bears traverse glaciers. Flowers emerge from granite boulders. Inlets fill with glacial silt. Shorelines shift and nautical charts become obsolete as the landthe actual crust of the Earthrebounds after the immense weight of glacial ice (of just a few hundred years ago) has been lifted. In this tale of friendship risk and hope we find a story of coming home and learning to live gracefully among the deep blue glaciers of Alaska a place Kim calls the Africa of America. His words offer us a chance to look into our own selves and ask how we might live with greater deliberation purpose and thankfulness for the wild places we still have.
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title: The Only Kayak: A Journey Into The Heart Of Alaska
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