Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge | 
|  | | | Title: | Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge | | Author: | Jill Fredston | | Publisher: | North Point Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 10 October, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0865476551 / 9780865476554 | | List Price: | $15.00 | | You Save: | $4.80 | | Amazon Price: | $10.20 | |
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Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what they need to be self-sufficient, the two of them have battled mountainous seas and hurricane-force winds, dragged their boats across jumbles of ice, fended off grizzlies and polar bears, been serenaded by humpback whales and scrutinized by puffins, and reveled in moments of calm.
As Fredston writes, these trips are "neither a vacation nor an escape, they are a way of life." Rowing to Latitude is a lyrical, vivid celebration of these northern journeys and the insights they inspired. It is a passionate testimonial to the extraordinary grace and fragility of wild places, the power of companionship, the harsh but liberating reality of risk, the lure of discovery, and the challenges and joys of living an unconventional life.
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Customer Reviews:
• A Must Read 06 March, 2008
She is an amazing writer...very in tune with herself and her natural settings. Adventerous and fun! A must read for anyone who loves Alaska, paddling, or just a coming into your own kind of reader!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3GJFCJZW4VEBV
• Great Book! Don't Hesitate. You Will Be Glad You Read It. 28 November, 2008
Great book! I was disappointed when their story ended. I could only hope Doug and Jill continue to write more about their experiences.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ANT6EBDDNZUYM
• Genuine, Down To Earth, Beautiful 11 November, 2006
Her style is elegantly simple, her stories come from the heart...
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2FCGSWL5Z18E5
• Adventures Of Mind And Heart. 11 November, 2006
Unusual deep and wide revelations, experienced and written by a woman describing extreme world wide rowing and paddling. Fully appriciated by kindred spirit having traveled with mind and heart.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A54BV49KNDT4F
• An Editor's Viewpoint 23 March, 2007
I recommend that you take these reviews with a grain of salt. The stories told by author are quite exciting, but I think that some readers have let them overshadow the author's trite metaphors, frequent, not-so-subtle digs at her husband, and self-aggrandizing style that any editor worth her salary would have edited out in the first draft. The author actually compares herself to Mother Teresa at one point.
If you are looking to read about adventure, try some real writers. Read "The Places In Between," by Rory Stewart, or "The Worst Journey in the World," by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. These are written with sensitivity, elegance, and complete lack of ego. Perhaps Ms. Fredston should have taken a look at these before dashing off her book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1ETR1LD2IHSH4
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