Mudflats Fish Camps 800 Miles Around Alaska Cook Inlet eBook Erin McKittrick
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Experiences of a family that opened its front door to walk 800 miles in the wilderness
Alaska holds a mythical place in the American imagination as our wildest, coldest, largest, and farthest frontier. It is also the home of writer Erin McKittrick, who lives in a yurt on the shore of Cook Inlet with her husband and two preschool-age children.
Mudflats and Fish Camps chronicles McKittrick’s journey, along with her family, as they set out to hike and paddle the entire coastline of Cook Inlet, a distance of 800 miles. This is unconventional parenting in the extreme, bringing kids not just into the woods, but into quicksand, snow, and the realm of grizzlies! And while their story includes all the stubbornness, excitement, and sleet-in-the-eyes awfulness that comes from walking their way through the world, it also provides an intimate history of a wild and fascinating place and the people who call it home.
While many adventure tales spring from the restless quest of someone seeking to find themselves—whether floundering in the possibilities of youth or in the throes of a midlife crisis—McKittrick’s story is about a person who has already found her purpose in life. It’s an adventure that happens right in the author’s backyard, providing her an unusual depth and connection. And it’s not a story of record-breaking speed, hopeless under-preparedness, or a radical transformation of the soul. Instead, it describes the journey of an ordinary family stepping into the wild outside their home. The wonder of the landscape, the exuberant joy of children outdoors, and the magic of exploration make Mudflats and Fish Camps an inspiring tale of choosing to walk—literally—a more adventurous path.
Mudflats Fish Camps 800 Miles Around Alaska Cook Inlet eBook Erin McKittrick
Oh, but what a different world we would have if more people and parents lived this inquisitively and passed that interest in the real world on to their kids! This family is an Alaska treasure on many levels. Even in a state where many engage in what outsiders may consider out-there adventures with their families, they are stand-outs. Kids need a healthy dose of nature, the time play in the mud and dirt (and even to eat some if they are going to properly develop their immune systems medical science now tells us), the encouragement to develop their imaginations and curiosity about everything--about life in general. It seems to me that we as a society are increasingly tending to over "protect" and overly insulate our young these days from the very things that make kids, well. . . kids. No worries about that with this family.This book chronicles yet another amazing family adventure and is well written, well presented, and is thought provoking as well.
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Mudflats Fish Camps 800 Miles Around Alaska Cook Inlet eBook Erin McKittrick Reviews
I continue to be amazed at the scope of adventure this young family engages in. Once again Erin blends tales of an arduous journey along the entire Cook Inlet coastline with history and science of the area. The reader gets to explore through the eyes and wonder of two toddlers. The quality of her writing takes you along on their adventure. Every muddy foot print is surrounded with geology, biology and history.
I have read all of McKittrick’s other books and really enjoyed them, but I thought this book fell a little short, but just a little.
I can’t tell if this adventure, being so much of the same thing mud and wind, just left her not as inspired as previous adventures, or if she rushed this book out, or there was some other factors at play, but it just lacked the authentic energy of some of her other works. This was particularly clear in her theme “the question” she kept asking people, it seemed to be clear in the first half of the book, but then kind of fall away from the story until the very end.
Still, I was happy to see her finally focusing more on the adventure itself rather than trying to alternate between the adventure and her environmental concerns. To be clear, the environment is worth being worried about and worthy of its own book, but in her past books I always felt like it detracted from what was a smooth and interesting read.
McKittrick is also very good at describing, in detail, the nature she she’s around her, making imagery that is palpable for the reader. But as with her other books she still seems to leave out how these things make her FEEL. She will describe near-death launches with the pack raft and close calls with bears, but we never really get a glimpse of her emotions, how these situations, during or afterward, transform her in some way. It would be nice to see more of her observations meld into reaction/reflection.
She also needs to stop making all her graphs the same length. She has learned the power of stand-alone words, but needs to deploy that same skill to powerful sentences, letting them stand out or on their own when they need to. It will make her writing so much more compelling.
Also, she needs to MAKE her publisher run her photos in color, ALL of them. They’re too good for b&w.
These few complaints aside, it’s worth the read, especially if you are a fan of her other works.
I loved the book! Such a wonderful combination of personal experience, and Alaskan history past present and future. A book to read and re-read. I have read 3 books by Erin McKittrick now and they are informative, educational and just plain good writing.
I love everything Erin writes. Enjoy!
Oh, but what a different world we would have if more people and parents lived this inquisitively and passed that interest in the real world on to their kids! This family is an Alaska treasure on many levels. Even in a state where many engage in what outsiders may consider out-there adventures with their families, they are stand-outs. Kids need a healthy dose of nature, the time play in the mud and dirt (and even to eat some if they are going to properly develop their immune systems medical science now tells us), the encouragement to develop their imaginations and curiosity about everything--about life in general. It seems to me that we as a society are increasingly tending to over "protect" and overly insulate our young these days from the very things that make kids, well. . . kids. No worries about that with this family.
This book chronicles yet another amazing family adventure and is well written, well presented, and is thought provoking as well.
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