Trusting the River

<p>Jean Aspen daughter of arctic explorer and author Constance Helmericks began life in the wilderness. Throughout six decades the natural world has remained central to her. What began as a series of letters to her son Lucas when she and her husband Tom set out to search for a different future evolved over the seasons into a many snapshots of her remarkable life. All those seemingly random threads have woven the tapestry of her journey and the journey of the river flowing by the remote cabin. In <em>Trusting the River</em> she closes the circle of her mother's books and her own early work <em>Arctic Daughter</em>.</p>