The late naturalist’s remote lifestyle has captivated Americans—myself included—for decades. Would a visit to his off-grid wilderness shack live up to its beloved image? It’s late June, and after ...
DONNELLSON — The Donnellson Public Library will celebrate the 106th birthday of a Lee County man who went to live alone in the hostile Alaskan wilderness and became an icon of that state. The public ...
Could you live in a home like this? This is the question YouTube creator Salina Alsworth poses to viewers as she serves up a tour of a very remote cabin built by the late naturalist Richard Proenneke.
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey. 50 th Anniversary Edition, by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Dick Proenneke. Alaska Northwest Books, 2018. 272 pages. $19.99. This classic ...
Monroe Robinson’s “The Handcrafted Life of Dick Proenneke” is a treasure and complement to the story of Alaska’s blue-collar wilderness diarist Richard Proenneke, whose Bush life is detailed in part ...
Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he ...
Nowadays, you can find entire sections of the internet devoted to mastering the art of "off-grid" living. There, you can find both experts and charlatans exchanging argumentative blows in the ...
He started building his little log cabin, all by himself, in 1968. He was 51, and had already lived a hard life, and the spot he chose was perhaps a reflection of that: just steps from the picturesque ...