On a slope above a mountain lake in Alaska's Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and named it Koviashuvik - an Eskimo word meaning living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness. Sam's account of the twenty years they spent there is both a tale of wilderness survival and an inspiring meditation on the natural world and humanity's relationship to it.

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Title: Koviashuvik: Making a Home in the Brooks Range
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0816517959
ISBN 13: 9780816517954
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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On a slope above a mountain lake in Alaska’s Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and named it Koviashuvik—an Eskimo word meaning "living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness." Sam’s account of the twenty years they spent there is both a tale of wilderness survival and an inspiring meditation on the natural world and humanity’s relationship to it.

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