Four Quarters of Light
An Alaskan Journey
Nonfiction, Travel, United States, West, Adventure & Literary Travel, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Brian Keenan | ISBN: | 9780307485045 |
| Publisher: | Crown/Archetype | Publication: | December 18, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Broadway Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Brian Keenan |
| ISBN: | 9780307485045 |
| Publisher: | Crown/Archetype |
| Publication: | December 18, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Broadway Books |
| Language: | English |
Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's life ever since.
A short visit to Fairbanks several years ago was enough to seal his connection with the place and he resolved to return. Last year he did so with a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and heart informed with his own love of the desolate and barren places of the world. In the course of a journey that takes him through four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, he discovers a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure . . .
Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's life ever since.
A short visit to Fairbanks several years ago was enough to seal his connection with the place and he resolved to return. Last year he did so with a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and heart informed with his own love of the desolate and barren places of the world. In the course of a journey that takes him through four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, he discovers a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure . . .
