 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.80 After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness.
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 | South to Alaska: A True Story of Courage and Survival in a Remarkable Adventure from America's Heartland to the Last Frontier by Nancy Owens Barnes
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $13.90 In 1926, a 10-year-old Oklahoma boy dreams of living in Alaska. Nearly fifty years later he builds a boat in his Arkansas backyard and cruises it there. He has never been south of the United States border and has never been on a boat in the open ocean. "Learn by doing," he says.
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 | Road Song by Natalie Kusz
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $1.40 In 1969, when she was six years old, Natalie Kusz, with her parents and three siblings, left Los Angeles and headed north to Alaska on a classic quest for freedom, a house on the land, and a more wholesome way of living.
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 | The Coldman Cometh: A Family's Adventure in the Alaska Bush by Bob Durr
Buy used from: $0.75 In 1968 a tenured professor of English gives up his job and moves his family to Alaska to live the next 35 years in the wild.
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 | Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds by Norma Cobb
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.75 As the last woman to claim land under the Homestead Act in the 1970s, Norma Cobb was America's last official woman pioneer when she and her family of six moved to the Arctic wilderness of Alaska.
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 | In the Shadow of Eagles: From Barnstormer to Alaska Bush Pilot, a Pilots Story by Rudy Billberg
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $14.51 In a two-seater airplane in 1934, 18-year-old Billberg fulfilled his boyhood dream of learning to fly and years later, moved to Alaska to become a bush pilot.
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