Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers

<p>For author M. Scotty Lamkin a conventional lifestyle at a traditional job was a horribly mundane way to approach life. On January 16 1979 he arrived in Alaska with fifty dollars in his pocket two duffel bags and a backpack. A long way from his Kentucky homeland Lamkin journeyed to Alaska expecting adventure and he was not disappointed. Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers narrates many of Lamkin's true-life escapades in Alaska's remote bush country.<p><p>In this half-travelogue half-memoir Lamkin tells the sometimes funny sometimes deadly stories of his experiences as a professional guide and adventurer-waking up a brown bear at close range sinking a boat in frigid Alaska waters crashing bush planes throwing rocks at bears and experiencing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth.<p><p><i>Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers</i> offers a glimpse into the flavor of Alaskan life provides a firsthand view of the wonders of untamed nature and wildlife and demonstrates the results of taking a chance to change your life.<p>