Land of Bear and Eagle

<p><span style=color: rgba(33 43 54 1)>At loose ends in his private life at odds with society Tanyo Ravicz persuades Martina his wife to join him in a reset a new beginning. Before long they and their children are living in a wilderness cabin on Alaska's Kodiak Island outnumbered by the brown bears.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 43 54 1)>A celebration of nature and of the peculiarities of the Alaskan bush Land of Bear and Eagle: A Home in the Kodiak Wilderness builds from personal experience to a rounded loving portrait of a place Cottonwood Homestead and a way of life. In these essays and sketches by turns humorous meditative and lyrical the author goes beyond the challenges and triumphs of wilderness living to explore his environment and to examine the relationships among the plants and animals and the people he meets. Along the way he wrestles with his doubts and reconsiders his assumptions about life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 43 54 1)>The testament of one of Alaska's last homesteaders this book offers a vision of what it means to be wedded to a place and fully alive to the world.</span></p>