Hunts and Home Fires EBook: Surviving 50 Years of Alaska and Other Interesting Things

Hunts and Home Fires an account of fifty years of life spent on the last frontier. It is a reflection on the spirit of small town Alaska and of a people used to bringing home wild foods for the table. It is about youth and coming of age, about individual industry, hard work, family, and life in general. Hunting and fishing stories are the backbone, mixed with how-to information, humor, and a bit of history. There are essays regarding an interesting mix of subjects through a fifty year journey. Hunts and home fires is not an autobiography. By the author's own admission a complete story of his life would not be worth the writing--or the reading. It is not fiction, at least not most of it. And it is not a historical work, although the passage of more than fifty years of living on the Last Frontier have provided ample time to have witnessed many interesting things. He does include a few bits of history to spice up the narrative. Most of Hunts and home fires comes from the pages of the life and personal opinions of the author. There is humor, a bit of education, hunting stories, some muses on the serious and practical, essay glimpses about having lived a special and privileged lifestyle, and even a snippet of poetry. Across it all is the underlying theme of gratitude for having been fortunate enough to have survived living more than fifty years of a wild life on the Last Frontier.--Publisher's description