Rowing to Latitude - Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)

"[Fredston] provides armchair travelers with a vivid portrait of wilderness rowing...full of intriguing personal digressions and moments of high drama."
--John Freeman, The Wall Street Journal

Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what they need to be self-sufficient, the two of them have battled mountainous seas and hurricane-force winds, dragged their boats across jumbles of ice, fended off grizzlies and polar bears, been serenaded by humpback whales and scrutinized by puffins, and reveled in moments of calm.
As Fredston writes, these trips are "neither a vacation nor an escape, they are a way of life." Rowing to Latitude is a lyrical, vivid celebration of these northern journeys and the insights they inspired. It is a passionate testimonial to the extraordinary grace and fragility of wild places, the power of companionship, the harsh but liberating reality of risk, the lure of discovery, and the challenges and joys of living an unconventional life.

General

Imprint:	North Point Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2002
First published:	October 2002
Authors:	Jill A Fredston
Dimensions:	209 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	289
Edition:	1st pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-86547-655-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Sport Books > Biography > Sport
LSN:	0-86547-655-1
Barcode:	9780865476554

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