Alaska at midcentury offered great opportunities to the restless and ambitious people who had survived the Great Depression and World War II. Some of those who came North succeeded; some came and left; some came and managed to beat down every opportunity that raised its ugly head. That's pretty much the story of the narrator of this autobiographical novel and his family, who wrestled with the trees, the mud, the machinery, the bugs, and most of all themselves while trying to make a living on the northern frontier. Some of the characters whose lives touched on this story are the real people who acted to join Alaska to the Union and to the 20th century-or fought bravely against both. Davis draws the reader into the often funny, sometimes sad, and always rich experiences that bring his young protagonist from childhood into adulthood.

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Long-time Alaskan Neil Davis is known for his scientific career as a geophysicist with NASA and the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. His nonfiction writings include not just the eighty-some technical papers he has written or co-authored but also more popularly accessible books on matters scientific and historic, the first of which began in 1976 as a regular newspaper column illuminating aspects of science for the general public. Collected, Dr. Davis's columns became Alaska Science Nuggets. Other titles include Energy/Alaska, The Aurora Watcher's Handbook, and The College Hill Chronicles, a history of the University of Alaska in its early days, all published by the University of Alaska Press. Now Davis writes fiction as well, drawing on his experiences growing up in Alaska, including his family-based interest in gold mining and appreciation for the role miners have played in Alaska. His fictional works to date are Battling Against Success and Caught in the Sluice. Davis and his wife, the potter Rosemarie Davis, built their own log home near Fairbanks, and now divide the year between Fairbanks and a winter home in Friday Harbor, Washington. Their three children all live full-time in Alaska with their families.

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