One Man's Wilderness, by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke

I watched the DVD we have here in the Library called Alone in the Wilderness, and had recommended it to several patrons when one day a patron returned this book and explained that it was the book that went with the movie. I was quite elated to be able to go further in depth into Dick's experience in the Alaskan wilderness.
At age 51 Dick dropped out of "real life" and went to Kodiak Island and built a small log cabin. This book is mainly about his first year there; building the cabin, the constant chain of nature's events that kept him company, and his first winter. The writing in the book is like a diary, some days entries are short and some long. His writing is at times quite prosiac and certainly had the effect of bringing me there to almost experience what he did. Many have dreamed his dream, but Dick followed through with it and he stayed to become a part of the country. Check out the DVD too!