The Accidental Explorer by Sherry Simpson

The Accidental Explorer by Sherry Simpson

Alaska is a place of great adventure and exploration. After having lived in the Great Land for nearly all of her life, Sherry Simpson realized that she had not scaled mountains, trekked across wild tundra, or blazed trails through virgin forests. Did that fact make her less of an Alaskan? In the series of essays that comprise The Accidental Explorer, Sherry Simpson recounts the experiences of an ordinary woman confronting the great expanses of water and untracked land in Alaska, as she makes her best efforts to map her sense of place and her sense of self in a land that seems to require exploration of its inhabitants. While undertaking arduous treks into the backcountry, she falls into a glacial river and nearly drowns. On an archetypal epic solo hike, she ruminates constantly on when and whether she should abandon that folly. She writes with both humor and humility, harnessing great powers of observation of the natural world. In a downright scary encounter with a mildly aggressive bear, Simpson shrinks from any supposed Alaskan larger-than-life persona to assume her place on the food chain- an urbanized human who is appropriately afraid of big bears. Simpson also offers up the (l

Sherry Simpson's first book, The Way Winter Comes, won the Chinook Literary Award. She teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where she lives.

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ISBN 13	9781570615375
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Titel	The Accidental Explorer
Autor	Sherry Simpson
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Verlag	Blue Star Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-02-05
Seitenanzahl	240
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