Eric Wade knew he'd finally found the perfect cabin location in the vast wilderness of interior Alaska. He climbed up the river bank to walk on the firm forest floor. He wove through the trees, brushed aside rose bushes and kicked the ground surface like checking a tire. The land spread before him with majestic white spruce and views of a sparkling clearwater river. This is where he would build a log cabin and move his family. He stood among the roses and highbush cranberries a step closer to realizing his dream of wilderness living. His family would grow to love the landscape as much as he did . . . but over time, his dream changed, as did the land itself

"A wonderful, addictive love song to the Alaskan wilderness."--Charles Rangeley-Wilson, author of Silver Shoals and The Silt Road

"A poet with an axe, a teacher on a river, forever learning and sharing."--Kim Heacox, author of Jimmy Bluefeather and The Only Kayak

"A tale of decades spent learning, enjoying and sharing a rare gift."--Howard Weaver, writer and editor at the Anchorage Daily News, where he worked on both of the paper's two Pulitzer Prize winning series

"A soulful story of teacher turned student; a man bent on immersing himself in wilderness ways."--Debra McKinney, author of Beyond the Bear

"Belongs on the shelf of anyone contemplating finding their own version of the Alaska Dream."--Tom Walker, author of Wild Shots: A Photographer's Life in Alaska and We Live in the Alaskan Bush