Our Perfect Wild: Ray and Barbara Bane’s Journeys and the Fate of the Far North(University of Alaska Press, 2016)
$24.95
An unlikely couple—a wild boy and a good girl—Ray and Barbara Bane, both teachers, set off from the sooty landscape of West Virginia into the snowy panoramas of Alaska. There they make another unlikely commitment: to learn the Old Ways of the land they come to adopt—and defend. With her characteristic poise and bravery, distinguished Alaskan journalist Kaylene Johnson chronicles the Banes’ story of environmental gumption in the wilderness, and the tale of their marriage, too, in Our Perfect Wild. As her narrative gallops into environmental controversies, it shines with Johnson’s insight and intelligence.
–Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 and Paradise, Piece By Piece.
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An unlikely couple—a wild boy and a good girl—Ray and Barbara Bane, both teachers, set off from the sooty landscape of West Virginia into the snowy panoramas of Alaska. There they make another unlikely commitment: to learn the Old Ways of the land they come to adopt—and defend. With her characteristic poise and bravery, distinguished Alaskan journalist Kaylene Johnson chronicles the Banes’ story of environmental gumption in the wilderness, and the tale of their marriage, too, in Our Perfect Wild. As her narrative gallops into environmental controversies, it shines with Johnson’s insight and intelligence.
–Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 and Paradise, Piece By Piece.
