Wow, what a book

[SeaCat]

I just finished reading a book my father loaned to me. It's called:

"On the edge of Nowhere" by James Huntington.

It's the true story of a guy who grew up in Alaska. By the time you finish reading it you just have to wonder at how people are able to survive what he took as a matter of course.

Cat

 

[litfan10]

I just finished reading a book my father loaned to me. It's called:

"On the edge of Nowhere" by James Huntington.

It's the true story of a guy who grew up in Alaska. By the time you finish reading it you just have to wonder at how people are able to survive what he took as a matter of course.

Cat

Thanks...this sounds interesting! I'll look into it!

 

[TE999]

I just finished reading a book my father loaned to me. It's called:

"On the edge of Nowhere" by James Huntington.

It's the true story of a guy who grew up in Alaska. By the time you finish reading it you just have to wonder at how people are able to survive what he took as a matter of course.

Cat

I'd like to read that one myself. I've read several books about the various polar explorers and their expeditions and marvel at the privations they endured. Humans are extremely adaptable to all sorts of environments and not knowing anything else, one does become used to where one lives.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

One of my Johnson ancestors wrote a book about how people survived on the American Frontier; its very detailed. Ordinary life was what we consider wilderness survival, and the action in his tale took place in Illinois circa 1820. His mother published a comparable book about life in Tennessee and Kentucky circa 1800.

Town was 70 miles away. The nearest neighbor was 10 miles up the road. On one occasion a 300 pound neighbor woman stayed with her while the men went to town for supplies, and the neighbor died out in the yard. Too fat to move, my ancestor had to wait for a new settler to come along and bury the woman.

Her husband traded pelts and bees wax for lead, powder, coffee, sugar, needles, and maybe a new bonnet.

 

[SeaCat]

One of my Johnson ancestors wrote a book about how people survived on the American Frontier; its very detailed. Ordinary life was what we consider wilderness survival, and the action in his tale took place in Illinois circa 1820. His mother published a comparable book about life in Tennessee and Kentucky circa 1800.

Town was 70 miles away. The nearest neighbor was 10 miles up the road. On one occasion a 300 pound neighbor woman stayed with her while the men went to town for supplies, and the neighbor died out in the yard. Too fat to move, my ancestor had to wait for a new settler to come along and bury the woman.

Her husband traded pelts and bees wax for lead, powder, coffee, sugar, needles, and maybe a new bonnet.

Got some titles? I would be interested in reading these.

Cat