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Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man
Doug Fine
出版Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co., 2004
主題Architecture / Buildings / ResidentialBiography & Autobiography / GeneralHouse & Home / Sustainable LivingHumor / Form / EssaysNature / SeasonsSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / RuralSports & Recreation / Outdoor Skills
ISBN088240590X9780882405902
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=z4srXVPSiLoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Now here's a formula for near disaster: East Coast big-city guy, world-traveler, jounalist, and otherwise politically savvy fellow settles down in rural Alaska, where men are many and manly, and women with survival skills are good to count among your friends. He wants to fit in. But how does one learn to be a Mountain Man? By observing, imitating, and making near-fatal mistakes, that's how. The choices a boy has to make. Eat processed food or on-the-hoof food, learn to operate a chainsaw or freeze to death, figure out what a bunny boot is or lose a few toes, and by the way, which end of he barrel points up? This is the story of Doug's first difficult winter in a one-room cabin, trying to stay alive and come out of it with some semblance of Alaska cool. With side-splitting, self-depreciating humor, Doug shares his attempts to elevate himself past his perpetual state of greenhorn-ness by aligning himself with tough sourdoughs to someday claim the title of manly Mountain Man.