On the Edge of Nowhere

Description

For sheer excitement and adventure, few novels match the true-life story of James Huntington. The son of a white trapper and Indian mother, Huntington learned early to fight for survival in Alaska’s remote Kuskokwim region, where life was hard. Huntington’s mother once walked 1,000 miles in the dead of winter to return to her family. Later, when she died, it fell to her son–then just seven–to care for his brother and sister. A courageous yet modest man, Huntington hunts wolves, fights bears, survives close calls too numerous to mention, and becomes the first musher to win the Anchorage and Fairbanks sled-dog race championships in the same year. On the Edge of Nowhere is an enduring Alaska classic, an astonishing story filled with surprising twists and turns and still “tingling with excitement,” as a reviewer put it, in this third edition of an Alaska classic.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: James Huntington,Elliott Lawrence (Author)
Published: 06/01/2002
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN: 9780970849335
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 0.30″ H x 8.40″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Huntington, James: – The late James Huntington of Galena, Alaska, was among other things a state legislator, Native leader, and winning sled dog racer.Lawrence, Elliott: – Lawrence Elliott was a Reader’s Digest correspondent for Alaska and western Canada when this story was written in the mid-1960s. Elliott now lives in Luxembourg