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| Title | : | Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness |
| Author | : | Pete Fromm |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 2003 by Picador (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Autobiography. Memoir. Adventure. Outdoors |
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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West's premier voices.Point Books Concering Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
| Original Title: | Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness |
| ISBN: | 0312422725 (ISBN13: 9780312422721) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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8-28-11Only on page 28Though it's been exceedingly difficult concentrating for even brief spurts of reading, this Non-Fiction account is, "Like Chris McCandless's Story, but Fromm makes all the RIGHT choices in this story," Blythe Douglas told me as he recommended this loaner.Well written, intriguing and an easy, short read.Kaye's Wednesday homework was bring in a Non-Fiction book, one you may wish to read. After she learned Laura Ingalls Widler's "Little House" series was one, I recommendedYet another "young man goes into the wilderness" story. For a change, nothing really dire happens to this young man. Pete Fromm was a college student when he was offered the opportunity to spend the winter in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs for the National Park Service. With a puppy named Boone and a truck full of supplies, and armed with the Foxfire manuals and Brad Angier's books on survival, he was delivered to his campsite before the first snow with an ax and instructions on how much
One day in my American Lit. I was posed with a dilemma. I had to choose my semester novel. I knew one thing and one thing only;I needed to choose something that interested my in order to hold my attention. Being from Northwest Montana I love hunting, fishing, hiking etc.,so immediately when I read the back of Pete Fromm's adventurous story it was as if Indian Creek Chronicles was destined for me. Indian Creek Chronicles captures the mind of any wilderness loving person, young or old. From Pete
A chance conversation with a college friend sends the author venturing into the Bitterroot Wilderness along the Montana-Idaho border, where he spends a winter tending to salmon eggs for the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game. This responsibility takes only minutes out of each day; the rest of the time is his own, and what this gregarious, impulsive, party-loving 20-year-old does with seven months of isolation in the wilderness is the central theme of this book.Fromm makes clear from the outset that
I am conflicted regarding the authors approach and choice of subject matter. I am not a hunter by choice and yet I dont view the actual effort to survive without meat as realistic for the author. He has a great gift with the written word and his questionable depiction of hunting does not impact his ability to write. I would prefer content more focused on natures beauty and non hunting vignettes, but for that I am choosing to read his novel about a brother and sister raised in West Texas. I hope
I added this book to my list after finding "One Year Off" on Amazon. Reviewers kept referring to this book, so I decided to read it. Fromm's story is intriguing: a 19 year old boy/man living alone in the Idaho wilderness for 9 months, surviving by his own hands/mind. The writing is rather journalistic and you get to ride along with Fromm as he takes this journey.The story ends too abruptly for me. I wish he had added a bit about his transition back to "real life". My main take away from this
Spending seven snowy months in the Selway Wilderness to watch over 2 million salmon eggs is not anything I would ever want to do. I don't even like the few inches of snow that fall in town every winter. Nor do I care all that much for hunting, fishing, or trapping. However, I was transfixed reading about Fromm's experiences at Indian Creek and came away with a real sense of place from this brief book. Fromm writes well enough and doesn't try to embellish the experience with romantic prose. A
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