ASIN: B00413QPGA
Publisher: Rushing River Press
Pages: 288
. A Journey Even Huck Finn Would Have Admired South to Alaska Carries Readers from the Heartland of America to the Last Frontier…THE HARD WAY (To view the video book trailer for this book, click on "Visit Amazon's Nancy Owens Barnes Page" in the More About the Author section.) A True Story of Courage, Perseverance and Survival Born in the dusty heart of Oklahoma in 1916, ten-year-old Melvin sees a photograph of a cabin in the Alaska wilderness in his fourth-grade geography book and dreams of living there. Nearly fifty years later he builds a 47-foot boat in his Arkansas backyard, launches it on the Arkansas River, and cruises 10,000 miles to Alaska by way of the Panama Canal. Melvin has never been south of the United States/Mexico Border and has never been on a boat in the open ocean. "Learn by doing," he says. In South to Alaska, author Nancy Owens Barnes takes readers on two journeys. ...
