It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska

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It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska

â€œIn the wild, something inside me opens to innovation, inspiration, creativity, and imagination. Itâ€™s a good feeling, one that leaves me light and full of energy, free to imagine who I want to be in this life. . . . Yet itâ€™s slippery and ephemeral, and I can never seem to pack it out with me.â€
â€•Adrienne Lindholm

It Happened Like This is, on the surface, a memoir about what it means to live and love in one of the wildest places on the planet. But the love described is not a simple one; itâ€™s a gritty, sometimes devastating, often blood-pumping kind of feeling played out in the rugged Alaska wilderness.

In an authentic and honest voice, writer Adrienne Lindholm recounts her move to Alaska as a young woman eager to begin her career in environmental and wildlife studies. She finds herself initially out of her depth among her peers, many of whom are also â€œOutsiders,â€ new to the state, but who seem more experienced, more confident. Eventually she finds her way, immersing herself in the rigors of wilderness adventures and building a community of outdoorsy friends to sustain her. Soon she falls in love with JT and gradually, at times painfully, they build a life together and decide to start a family amidst the wild.

Adrienne celebrates the many ways in which Alaska, and her outdoor adventures there, inspired self-discovery, as well as revealing her difficult and intimate journey into motherhood. Her love story encompasses the outline of massive mountains on the horizon, viewed for the first time; a caribou moving through an alder forest; the effort to climb a glaciated peak; and the peace that settles when contemplating a quiet Arctic lake. At times, her loveâ€•for JT, but also for nature and lifeâ€•also feels savage, like when she charges onto a glacier alone, or when she shoots, kills, and skins her first animal.

With It Happened Like This, readers take an intimate, gently humorous, and occasionally adrenalin-spiked journey into adulthood, and into the depth and comfort of wilderness.
Country USA
Brand Mountaineers Books
Manufacturer Mountaineers Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2018-08-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781680511345

Country	USA
Brand	Mountaineers Books
Manufacturer	Mountaineers Books
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2018-08-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781680511345

It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska

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