A Land Gone Lonesome
Subtitle: An Inland Voyage along the Yukon River
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: May 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272256
ISBN-13: 9781582433448
Subjects: Graphic novels; Modern fiction; Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska); O'Neill, Dan; Description And Travel; Travel; Travel - General; United States - West - General; General; Western & Pacific Coast states; Special Interest - Adventure; Essays & Travelogues; Canoes and canoeing; Canada - Territories & Nunavut; (Daniel T.)
First sentence: It is a fine Saturday morning in mid-August.
Description: "A literary kin of John Muir's Travels in Alaska and John McPhee's Coming into the Country, A Land Gone Lonesome is the book on Alaska for the new century." "Though he treks through a beautiful and hostile wilderness, the heart of O'Neill's story is his exploration of the lives of the few tough souls clinging to the old ways - even as government policies are extinguishing their way of life. More than just colorful anachronisms, these wilderness dwellers - both men and women - are a living archive of North American pioneer values."

"As O'Neill encounters these natives, he finds himself drawn into the bare-knuckle melodrama of frontier life - and further back still into the very origins of the Yukon River world. With the rare perspective of an insider, O'Neill here gives us an intelligent, lyrical - and ultimately, probably the last - portrait of the river people along the upper Yukon."--Jacket.