A Bildungsroman: Individuality becomes Teamwork: Idealism meets Reality. A flower child embraces Nature, encounters Mother Nature, and comes face to face with Human Nature. The setting is deep in a field of wildflowers, far from any city. It is during the Alaska oil boom, and two anachronistic romantics have heeded the call of the wild. Kate has come from Hawaii, to see a winter. Inspired by the cultural revolution of the sixties, she dreams of a Utopia. Tim, a soldier returning from Vietnam, simply wants to build a log home and live life the way he wishes. They elope.This is Historical Fiction. Photographs and letters written from the pioneer wife to her mother detailing the adventurous newlyweds pre-technological lifestyle were treasured, and eventually handed down to Atwood Cutting by her grandmother. The nonfiction narrative is likely to evoke disbelief in young adults, and fond memories in seniors while nature lovers and DIY souls will lap up the innovative transportation and construction solutions described. Their heroic wilderness experiment takes Emerson's vision of Transcendentalism through self-reliance, and puts meat on it, while the outcome of this Coming of Age odyssey calls to mind the reports of seeing the elephant by many who traveled west in covered wagons in the mid-19th century.If the wilderness calls your name and you dream of running toward its perfection, but cant clear your schedule, then you should read this trilogy about pioneering before there were cellphones. Such freedom might be hard to experience today.
| Author: Atwood Cutting |
| Publisher: Echo Hill Arts Press, Llc |
| Publication Date: Apr 21, 2019 |
| Number of Pages: 372 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN-10: 0997581905 |
| ISBN-13: 9780997581904 |
