Böcker av Constance Helmericks

Our Alaskan Winter continues the story of husband and wife Bud and Connie Helmericks' adventures in the Arctic. That winter they lived a nomadic life with the Eskimos, hunting caribou inland and then sea mammals out on the ice in the spring.

At twenty-four, Connie and her young husband, Harmon "Bud" Helmericks, setout from Fairbanks, Alaska in a homemade canoe. Paddling down theTanana and into the great Yukon River, they leave their known worldbehind. Five months later, they portage a hundred miles across muskegand icing ponds to the Kuskokwim River where they battle shifting iceinto the little town of Bethel near the Bering Sea. Along the journeythey encounter Native villages and isolated settlements, learning fromexperience and the kindness of strangers. Connie's honest and lyricalvoice depicts a changing Alaska and its endangered people during apivotal moment in history.