INSIDE PASSAGE Living with Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians
Michael Modzelewski *signed*
From COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
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Quantity: 1From COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
AbeBooks Seller Since August 6, 1999
Quantity: 1About this Item
Dust jacket has very light wear on top edge, inscribed by author on second page, otherwise without flaw. 6.5 X 9.5" 187 pages. Inside Passage is the powerful story of one man learning the ways of self-reliance in a spiritual search through the northern wilderness. He also forms unusual friendships with passing yachters, salmon fishermen, and Kwakiutl First Nations people. Written with a gentle humor and love for nature. Seller Inventory # 24779
Bibliographic Details
Title: INSIDE PASSAGE Living with Killer Whales, ...
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press, Alaska
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Color Photographs
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: Fifth Edition
About this title
"The Inside Passage is real dream country. Modzelewski's enthusiastic tale of his adventures on a wild northern island will inspire dreamers and doers alike." (William L. Sullivan, author of Listening for Coyote)
"Living on a deserted island has always been a dream for people searching for answers. Sometimes it has to be an island to keep one focused. For others they need only to lose themselves in a great passion. If you can do both and write about it like Modzelewski has done with Inside Passage, you're bound to come away with some clear directions for your life." (Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, Inc.)
"A modern Robinson Crusoe, Modzelewski invites us to abandon our safe, constricting routines and open our hearts and minds to unforgettable adventure." (Jennifer Carter, Emmy-award winning producer)
"Inside Passage provides a fine vicarious adventure for readers who cherish the wilderness." (Publisher's Weekly)
"Modzelewski ingeniously expresses his joy in solitude, snow storms, stars and interactions with animals. Writing an alone-in-the-wilderness book is becoming almost a rite of passage . . . an interesting reflection of our times." (Booklist)
"Impatient with the artificial distractions of contemporary America, Modzelewski found a life that was both more primitive and more civilized on a tiny island off the coast of Vancouver. He shares the frisson of excitement he felt when he touched the back of a killer whale, the exhilaration he experienced running on the beach and watching an eagle overhead: Their shadows merged, creating the image of a winged man." (Los Angeles Times)
". . . Modzelewski studied whales and bald eagles and was profoundly shaped." (San Francisco Examiner)
"Michael Modzelewski lived the Great White North fantasy most only dream about. Inside Passage is a fascinating book that blends adventure, natural history, and mysticism." (Vancouver Sun)
"When Michael Modzelewski decided to leave behind the comforts and hypocrisies of middle-class life for solitary island living, he didn't choose a palm-fringed atoll in the South Seas, but a desolate rocky outcrop in the Inside Passage to Alaska, on which he spent 18 challenging, fascinating and life-enhancing months. The view from a cruise ship was never like this." (The Literate Traveler)
"When Michael rowed his boat ashore on Swanson Island he found his dream world. This book is a charming memoir of a Robinson Crusoe life. . . . But there was always company. A bear. Killer Whales. Eagles. Tree trunks. Michael communed with them all, found force and intelligence. . . . He is a gifted writer." (Ohioana Quarterly)
"Modzelewski met the challenge to survive and immersed himself in the mysticism of the land." (Backpacker Magazine)
"The unknown is as likeable as the known. All I can do now and forever is be glad that I know Michael Modzelewski and can know his book. It's all true which is the best part." (M.F.K. Fisher)
"What separated Modzelewski's tale from other damn-civilization-I'm-off-to-sow- Oats-in-the-wilds tomes is the quality of the readers' vicarious experiences. He spares us smarmy mysticism and pontification about the problems of the world and lets the spirits of raw wilderness, its colorful people, and himself shine in all their glory, pathos and irony." (Canoe Magazine)
"We'd like to be like Mike! Not Michael Jordan. Michael Modzelewski." (Pueblo Chieftain)
"Inside Passage is a beautifully written story of nature, courage and adventure; and the debut of a splendid new writer soon to be famous around the world." (Barbara Myers, BBC-Radio, World News Service)
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