On a slope above a mountain lake in Alaska's Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and named it Koviashuvik--an Eskimo word meaning "living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness." Sam's account of the twenty years they spent there is both a tale of wilderness survival and an inspiring meditation on the natural world and humanity's relationship to it.
On a slope above a mountain lake in Alaska's Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and na...
From one of the last great wildernesses -- the Brooks Range of Alaska, one hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle -- Sam Wright speaks to an emerging view of nature as an interconnected, dynamic whole. Living in a hand-built, 12'-by-12' cabin, Wright records seasonal changes and his thoughts as he and his wife live a year in isolation and contemplation.
From one of the last great wildernesses -- the Brooks Range of Alaska, one hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle -- Sam Wright speaks to an emerging ...