The coldman cometh
Subtitle: a family's adventure in the Alaska bush
By: Bob Durr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Durr, R. A.; Durr, R. A. -- Family.; Pioneers -- Alaska -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska.; Wilderness areas -- Alaska.; Alaska -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.; Alaska -- Biography.; Talkeetna Region (Alaska) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Coldman Cometh tells the whole story - the "family saga"--Of how and why Bob, who was a tenured full professor of English at Syracuse University, resigned in 1968 from his comfortable position and with his wife and four kids journeyed north into the Alaska bush. It's a tale of adventure, of perils, hardships, trials, and triumphs involving close encounters with bears, charging moose, stormy waters, and - probably most dangerous of all - the severe subzero temperatures the Durrs came to call the "Coldman," he of the deadly embrace. This is the story of those tough, thrilling early years of settling in."

"The Coldman Cometh is not only a memoir of an adventurous quest but an in-depth report of a radical experiment in alternative living. It's an account of dropping out of the mainstream: of the smell of pine pitch and roar of a bull moose and the "whys" of the fabulous journey. Ultimately, it's a commentary on society that can only be given by a writer who has left it."--Jacket.