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Proud of my old high school chum.......2007-02-08
I attended Sullivan High School with the author, Rick Leo in Chicago in the 1960's. He was always the brightest kid in every class we had together, and I admired his intellect. We weren't very close friends, but 10 years later, I had the privilege of working with his younger brother, John Leo, at a Chicago healthclub. I was actually trying to get back in touch with John, and was "Googling" his name to see if I could contact him, when I put Rick's name into the search engine. I was amazed to find that he had written this great book. I borrowed it from our library here in San Diego (sorry, Rick), and thoroughly enjoyed reading this exciting, informative and often poignant memoir. The other reviews here do a fine job of synopsizing the story, so I won't reiterate it, but what really shone through the pages was Rick's intense enthusiasm, wonderful sense of humor and incredible resourcefulness. I am very proud of my classmate, and hope we can visit him in Alaska sometime. He certainly paints an attractive picture. Hopefully, we can get in touch, maybe through this review! I am buying a copy of the book for my own brother (royalties to you, I hope, Rick) so we can discuss it together.
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Beyond " The Call of the Wild".......2006-09-26
I came late to the party, but am glad to have discovered this gem of a book! As a consumate follower of great wilderness adventures, I became hooked on "Edges of the Earth" just by reading the dust cover. Alaska almost claimed me a few years before the oil boom, however I passed it up and settled into the kind of routine urban existance that Richard Leo fled. Now through his vivid prose I have built a log house, mushed a dog sled team, climbed treacherous glaciers and was enraptured by magnificent northern lights. All vicariously of course. Understandably, I was awed by the man's utter self confidence and passionate attachment to the wild, even to the point of losing the woman who loved him. The philosophical and spiritual roots of this attachment come through in the telling, although the narrative is essentially down-to-earth and intensely human. Leo felt deeply but seems to have had few regrets about his decisions.
Questions remain. Leo is a gifted writer; why wasn't there a second book? Where is Janus today? After spending much of his childhood in the wilderness with his father, how did Janus come to view the mainstream of America's culture? Leo's desire to raise his son outside of that culture was an ultimate projection of his own values. What has been gained from it? What,if anything, has been lost? I feel this book richly deserved a sequel, and others may feel the same.
Roy Campbell, author,
"Song of the Jackalope"
AMAZING.......2006-02-21
This book is AMAZING. If you are remotely interested in Alaska, do not walk, but run to buy this book. It is out of print, but you can still find it here on Amazon.
This book is about a couple trying to make a go of it in Alaska. From NYC and having no clue. It is a terrific book and I find it fairly accurate about life in Alaska.
A Good Chronicle.......2005-03-28
Since I did the same thing as Leo, twice, I was very interested in his story. I left Alaska in 1981 after the last disatrous attempt at wilderness living without money on the Dietrich River of the Brooks Range near Wiseman. I like the memoir genre and this one kept me reading. It wasn't surprising to find the relationship trouble and I can indentify completely, only my situation was reversed from Leo's dilemma. It was the woman that was more suited to the impoversihed end of the road existance than I no matter how appealing I found it philosophically. Three years without electicity was enough for me. My girlfriend stayed on 10 years in a different cabin in the Brooks after I abandoned the effort, or it me, as it were.
I kept saying to myself as I read Edges, "this girl isn't going to make it there." So I wouldn't call it a surprise ending. Frankly, I'm amazed she went in the first place. Even more that Melissa stayed in Talkeetna. His obcession with that particular house site leaves me wondering "why that spot?", but that's a personal thing.
Since I lived in Chase up the tracks I wanted to hear his impressions of the folks I met in 1976, but possibly many left, like the Bentleys, Husteds, but not so the Robert Durr family of back lake, the anonymous "professor" here. Durr just published his two memoirs as well so I suspect these details are filled in there. Same with the economics: will the cab driving go on indefinitely? What about the future?
All in all a decent effort.
VERY INTERESTING!.......2002-11-28
This book was throughly enjoyable from cover to cover. It's about a couple that leave New York and moves to Alaska. They know nothing about survival in the Alaska wilderness but somehow they learn and make a go of it. I'd love to see a follow up book! If you like wilderness adventures, dog sledding, nature, and survival stories...you should enjoy this book!
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This first-person account tells how author Amy Racina survived for four days and nights, both legs badly broken, in a remote valley in California's Sierra Mountains after a sixty-foot fall during a solo hiking trip. Battling pain, fear and exhaustion, she pulled herself along with her hands, and refused to give up, even when her chances of salvation were remote. The book chronicles her miraculous rescue, and describes her dramatic airlift out of the canyon, swinging helplessly from two straps, dangling fearfully beneath a helicopter high above the ravine where she had lain.
It is an amazing tale of despair and courage and hope. It speaks of incredible strength and heartbreaking weakness as it details what one woman believed might be the last days of her life. It is a memory of the darkest of times—and an affirmation of miracles. It is a celebration of a life almost snatched away, of survival against the odds.
- The book includes deeper spiritual reflections, the heartwarming story of "Helping Amy," the organization set up by the author's friends to aid her recovery, plus tips for wilderness survival.
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Inappropriate Marketing.......2007-09-27
I have not read the book and do not intend to. I am posting this review to express my disapproval of the marketing material I found for this book while hiking the John Muir Trail. A card promoting this book was left at the John Muir Hut in Kings Canyon National Park. The park service (and common sense) prohibits such marketing efforts.
Wonderful Read!!.......2007-09-20
I could not put this book down Iam an avid reader and I read it in one day. What a wonderful testament to the human spirit. Amy has such a special gift of telling her story and the people who were key in her survival. Also, her rehabilitation and most of all her own spirit to raise above her situation and overcome so much.
Bless her and her Angels in life.
Thank you in writing the story.
Diane
An amazing story of survival.......2007-07-11
This is surely one of the great stories of survival, on par with `Into Thin Air', `Alive' and `Touching the Void'. A story of heroism, survival and recovery. Amy Racina is an ardent hiker who enjoys great solo journeys in the Mountains of California. She planned a 162 mile journey in Kings Canyon National park in 2003. This was to be in one of the most remote parts of the park, Tehipite, many miles from the nearest hikers, well beaten tracks and worn trails. In this brilliant account the author tells the tale of her tragic accident, a terrible fall, and the rescue at the hand of three `angels' and her subsequent recovery. It is a harrowing tail of someone approaching death in the wilderness, alone. The only downside of the tail is that a majority of it deals with recovery and less of it with hiking. It would have been more interesting to learn more about the great outdoors. However this book will be of great value to anyone recovering from any form of injury. Nevertheless the author provides interesting insights into the `spiritual tools' for survival and interesting stories of her family history and its relationship with the Sierra.
An inspirational survivor story.......2007-05-24
There is something fascinating about wilderness survival stories. Perhaps it's because they offer such stark lessons of despair, courage, and hope. Amy Racina's tale of her falling accident while backpacking solo in a remote valley in California's King's Canyon National Park is no exception. It is harrowing, inspiring and beautifully written. She has a spiritual perspective on her accident that is unique.
I just noticed that Amy has a list here on "Listmania" of her "Favorite True-Life Adventure Books," but I would add her book to the following, as superb survival stories in the wild:
Touching the Void, Joe Simpson
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival, Yossi Ghinsburg
Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome, Bob Madgic
The Bear's Embrace: A Story of Survival, Patricia Van Tighem
Congratulations, Amy, on your recovery, and on writing such a magnificent book. Here's to many more years of hiking in the Sierras.
Capricious disaster and indominable endurance.......2007-03-31
I enjoyed Amy Racine's chronicle of an unexpected, capricious incident that alters forever the life and outlook of a freedom-loving independent woman. Amy Racine shows remarkable introspective self-awareness as she analyzes who she was and why she was so comfortable hiking alone for days and weeks in the wilds of the Sierra Nevadas. Its is a special kind of free spirit that is both independent and trusting, also with a deep love for the quiet solitude of the outdoors. And into this carefully constructed independence comes disaster, and near death. There is no metaphysicial transport here, or mysterious lights or voices in the wilderness. There is pure pain, agony and grit with the will to survive. And suddenly there are also people and relationships and inter-dependence that make survival a possibility. With this comes the awareness that we are not alone, and that people who are perfect strangers can come out of the wilderness or out of a hospital or the city to reach out and touch us and change our lives forever. I've read many out door wilderness epics, many very skillfully written, and epic in their scope. But Amy Racine has a kind of honest vulnerability about herself and what happened that is very refreshing, and you will thoroughly enjoy the read.
Pierce E. Scranton Jr. M.D.
author, "Death on the Learning Curve"
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- Least Favorite Robards Book
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Heartbreaker
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A woman. Her teenage daughter. A handsome, laid-back, chauvinistic rancher. And the savagery of unseen forces at large in the mountain wilds of Utah. New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards is here at her passionate best as she tracks the perils of the wilderness, the hidden face of violence, and--most awesome of all--the powerful feelings that evolve between men and women when lives are at stake.
Lynn Nelson is beautiful, harried--and divorced. A thirty-five-year-old single mother, she agrees to help chaperone her teenage daughter Rory and nineteen other girls on a wilderness trip. It seems pretty simple at first: the trip is sponsored by Adventure Incorporated, the weather is fine, and nothing is more troublesome than the minor skirmishes that sometimes flare up between girls and their mothers.
Except that there's more lurking along these mountain trails than adolescent hormones. Lynn and Rory find themselves set apart from the rest of the group, with only outfitter Jess Feldman for protection--he with the blazing baby blues, and the more than slightly macho attitude that women can't handle the outdoors. Normally Jess would be protection enough, but surrounding the trio is a danger far more menacing than any of them realizes--the face of an unknown and all too real evil is at large. As this terrifying ordeal plays itself out, the sparks that fly between Jess and Lynn make for a passion every bit as dramatic as the twisted trails of the majestic Uinta mountain range.
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Least Favorite Robards Book.......2006-08-21
I bought this book after reading the reviews here and also because I've enjoyed the last three Robards books I've read. This one was not at all as enjoyable to me as the other three I read (Superstition, Whispers at Midnight and Paradise County). Maybe I'm just not a wilderness or cowboy kind of girl because the romance aspect was just ok to me, and the supense, while some parts were pretty good, mostly bored me. I just didn't care for this one, but I love Karen Robards normally so I'll continue to keep reading herbooks.
Excellent Romantic Suspense Novel!.......2003-08-01
Karen Robards is one of my favorite authors and this is one of her best books in my opinion. I was hooked from the first page.
This review is short and sweet. If you like romantic suspense, check this book out!
Good start-bad ending.......2002-06-26
This Robard's book was a disappointment. The first half held me in its grasp, making me want to read faster and faster but I could only shake my head once the good guys and bad guys met. From that point, it became unrealistic. Did not care for the "end of the world" scenario and how conveniently everything happened for the good guys. For example, when the good guys were cornered and going to be killed, oops, the rock plateau falls and all but one terrorist is killed and this one happens to think that maybe his associates might have been mistaken in their beliefs. Get real! Sorry Karen, I love most of your action/thrillers but this was a major dissapointment.
Dynamite and chilling.......2002-05-08
This is my favorite type of book ~ romantic suspense with a slightly religious element, and a sexy hero that I fell in love with.
My friend told me I would love this book and she was 1000% right. It's awesome.
Karen Robards wove her spell around me so that I couldn't stop reading. I almost missed a day of work I was up so late reading to the very end.
She interlaces story, character, and style with such ease that I didn't merely read the book, I lived and breathed it.
Robards' best, by far..........2002-04-07
A hometown fan, I've read all of Robards' books in a few months after discovering "Paradise County" in our local Target store. "Heartbreaker" is the best -- a delicious, fast-paced read with rich characters and delightful banter. I've actually given this book to several friends as gifts.
Also consider my second favorite, "Walking After Midnight." Both are what I call "pursuit" books, where the main characters are on the run, making for a heart-racing read where the main characters are better developed (the storylines focus on survival, street-smarts and the steamy romances that can grow in the process).
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"When Elephants Fly" is Terrific.......2007-04-24
Wow, what a story! This light little book packs quite a punch. Carol's account is uplifting, exhilarating and sprinkled with enough humor that this serious story does not weigh you down.
Reading about Carol's journey from The Big Apple to rural South Africa is almost like being on the voyage yourself. The sights and smells and sounds described are vivid, yet the detail is never overbearing.
Self-reflection. Seizing the moment. Challenging yourself to the farthest reaches of imagination. Being outside your comfort zone. Achievement. Sadness. Happiness. Fear and overcoming it. Seeing people without prejudice. - - - All of that and more will be found in these pages.
Fabulous book.......2006-11-05
This book is an inspiration! I am an inveterate reader of travel literature. When I saw this book in my local independent book dealer I was intrigued by the subtitle--One womans journey from Wall street to Zululand!~ Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down. Carol is a marvelous story teller and her honesty and transparency are thoroughly disarming. She lets the reader into her life and into daily life in Zululand.
I learned so much that I decided to adopt it as a supplementary text in my University level class in the business school. Students need to learn that they can do well by doing good and that they can, as Carol Batrus does so graciously, overcome life's challenges. When I came the end of the book, I did not want it to end--so I read the acknowledgements page. There I discovered the name of a former student and colleague--who I immediately wrote and asked her to put me in touch with the author.
A few month's later Carol Batrus came and spoke with my class at the University and I discovered that she is as charming in life as in her book!
A move from Wall Street to the African bush.......2006-03-12
South Africa was far removed from everything businesswoman executive Carol Batrus knew: so what led her to move from her high-powered, successful job on Wall Street to the heart of Zululand to help the tribe's economic development? WHEN ELEPHANTS FLY: ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY FROM WALL STREET TO ZULULAND is a moving memoir of her journey, which was to help the tribe economically without destroying the environment. Her decision and journey is inspiring and provides plenty of insights into South African and local environmental issues.
Outward Bound?.......2005-10-11
This book will be of interest to anyone going to a Third World Country. Whether one is a casual traveler or an NGO professional, Carol Batrus' experiences become lessons that will make the journey more effective. She shows that the steps needed to accomplish organizational priorities remain similar in large companies, family life, or in the bush. If her entertaining prose is motivational, you will be glad that she went first.
a trip thru life .......2005-09-28
Carol Batrus captures the flavor of finding oneself in the oft difficult world of 20th and 21st Century America through living in Africa. By way of her travails she discovers,in no particular order, life, herself, a whole new culture, and a myriad of friends that make life as fulfilling as could be for one who persues it. Uplifting and inspriational. A terrific read.
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Driftwood Valley ý Worth Re-Reading.......2001-06-28
I have an autographeed copy the ©1946 edition of Driftwood Valley. I had the privilege of growing up in the same rural Pennsylvania town as Ms. Fletcher. When I was a teenager, I was employed by Ms. Fletcher to clean house for her one summer while she was away. She is a very nice woman with a remarkable background. She has set aside a nature conservatory in Northeast Pennsylvania which is open to the public. She has always been active in protecting the environment and wildlife. I re-read Driftwood Valley every couple of years and just love the adventure and challenges of this true-life story. What made it even more exiting for me is that the author was from my hometown.
A Field Naturalist's Classic.......2001-02-17
I am pleased to see this book has recently been reissued. I have an old, but treasured paperback copy. The author is observant of, informative about, and acutely responsive to the environment she describes. Having experienced winters in that region I would say she is especially adept at rendering the harsh, but radiant winters.
awesome.......2000-01-05
This book is an amazing journey into the frontiers of nature, exploration and science in the 1930's.
Move Over Annie and Tell Henry David the News.......1999-12-19
Do not buy one copy of this book! When you finish you will press it on a friend, who in turn will press it on another. In a month it will be out of the county; in two out of the state. You will not see the book again and you will sorely miss it. So buy two copies: one for re-reading, one for evangelism.
Driftwood Valley is easily the best book written on an outdoor theme by a woman. Why it remains buried in obscurity is a wonder. The best contemporary writing in the genre connot match it. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek comes close; but to read the two books successively is to realize the limitations of Annie Dillard. Stanwell-Fletcher stands in better company with Thoreau. In her depictions of winter life in particular she approaches the master. One is reminded constantly of "The Pond in Winter", "Brute Neighbors", and "Winter Animals". There is some of the grandeur of Thoreau's contemporary, Francis Parkman, in her prose, too, when she lifts her eye to sweep the horizens of the immense British Columbian landscape.
Ultimately, this is a big, confident, heroic book. No trembler in the world's genetically reductionist sphere is Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher. She sees Heaven's glory shine, and revels in it. So will you when you read this most neglected of American masterpieces!
A last note: Ms Stanwell-Fletcher is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. I learned this from the bookjacket of the original edition I picked up for a dime at a yard sale. Having spent a year at Mount Holyoke as an exchange student, I took special heed of this and called their library seeking information. Was she still alive, etc. But no one there had heard of her! Later, a friend in South Hadley went to the alumni office, learned that she is indeed still with us, and was able to forward a fan letter to which she received a gracious thank you. I would suggest that any Holyoke grad reading this get the book, read it, contact your alma mater, and demand that they honor this lady. Ms Stanwell-Fletcher deserves it!
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Gifts of the Wild: A Woman's Book of Adventure (Adventura Books)
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Wilderness offers our jaded age a way to test our soft and hard spots. The 34 writers in Gifts of the Wild touch down in Patagonia and Nepal and skip across vast expanses of America. Visiting college professor Pam Houston dips a toe into freezing waters and the bonds between men by joining a group of fly-fishing male poets on their after-midnight jaunts. Susana Levin's sharply honed "Night Skates" follows a loose-knit clan of deranged urban guerrillas who cruise the huffing rise and stomach-churning drops of San Francisco's streets on in-line skates at night. Spilling down the long, dizzy ski jump of Golden Gate Avenue, says Levin, "I was having the kind of rush you only get when you're doing something really fun, really stupid and illegal." Whether read in an armchair or stuffed into a backpack, this lively collection calls to the wild in all of us. --Francesca Coltrera
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Excellent. Uplifting and Positive........1998-12-29
I bought this book for a friend for Christmas on a whim. When I previewed it, I decided that I needed a copy as well. This is a fantastic book.
Inspirational.......1998-05-27
What a fabulous book! It's a collection of writings by women about their experiences in the outdoors...ranging from a terrifying night skate down the hills of San Francisco to a swim with wild dolphins to ice climbing to a walk in the forest. Every story is wonderfully written and inspires me to experience life to the fullest.
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Dance on the Wild Side: A True Story of Love Between Man and Woman and Wilderness
Roland Cheek , and
Jane Cheek
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I'm distressed by the idea of Jane wanting to compete in a man's world. That's the way my wife refers to her growing enchantment in outdoors adventure. The idea infuriates me. I understand that anyone who really is anyone must struggle with everday problems and relationships. I realize love must be learned and earned, and that it can be lost through mistakes or choices made or not made during life. Some might applaud the thought of a lady determined to become her "own woman" in a man's world. Not me. What bothers me is not that my petite wife of more than four decades wants to compete in outdoors proficiency, but where in in hell does anyone get the idea that all in nature belongs to men? This book, then, is about two people in love, sharing a life of exciting adventure--and growing in the process. In reality, it's about any couple over forty who lived and loved and shared and struggled to live the kind of life they wanted. What makes this story especially remarkable is how many times this couple fell on their butts while doing it.
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Great Read!.......2007-03-02
Roland Cheek is the ultimate story teller! I have just reread this book.... it is that good! This well-written autobiography gets you from the first hello, and you can't put it down! Roland tells the stories of their lives, the valley and mountain-top experiences, how they went from making a living to building a beautiful life together...... showing others how to get the most out of life.
had to put down Hemingway's last for Cheek's latest.......1999-09-07
Very well written. Lots of humor. An outdoorsman's dream come true, and a product of alot of hard work.
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How to put the sacred into words.......2007-01-04
Where most of us fail, Teresa somehow has found a way to put those feelings of reconnection into words. While the story of returning her friend, McKenzie, back to her wild heritage is wonderful, this book goes much deeper. Through Teresa's story we feel her returning to her own people, her own roots. More importantly to me, however, is how she puts into words the emotions of those of us who only find our peace through the natural world, a world where being safe behind closed doors is the worse kind of life there is. She tells about how in the wildness of the wilderness, freedom is not safety, but joy and sorrow more intense that the man made world most live in can ever offer.
She shows what most people struggle so hard to avoid, that one day all of us will fight for that one last breath that will never come. What we do with the breaths we have is what is important. Do we hide in our four walls while the wilderness disappears not only "out there", but in our souls as well? Or do we accept give away and live our lives to the fullest.
Teresa is not an author, but a story teller, something that has been sadly lacking in the sterile world we have created. I hope she continues to write for a long time.
True, Suspense, Heartfelt, Descriptive, Poetic, Journey.......2001-08-23
Teresa Martino, a graced author who can write and share her adventure with wolf and freedom, is a storyteller with humor, respect, and gift of art and word. It was like I was there with her as she lived this journey. Riveting, piercing, thought-provoking, pondering, and inspiring are adjectives to describe this book.
A true story of a wolf, her daughter, and woman,the author, who cross in each other's path of life. No preaching here. Beautiful physical descriptions of the land, the feelings, the sounds, the colors, the touch of wolf, and glimpses into the author's heart. I felt empathy for her questions she asked and struggled with her during her trials and vulnerabilities. The book goes beyond just another animal story to a tale of emotional questioning and searching by the author. A triumphant ending.
A MUST read. The book grows better and better with each chapter. I found myself reading so fast wanting to know how it ended.
Lyrical and Well-Told Story.......2001-08-04
I loved this book, the writing, the story and the spiritual adventure. I often think about having my own wolf following me on romps through the wilderness whenever I am out hiking alone. This book has some wonderful insight into the wolf mind and shows why a wolf is not a dog and wolves should not live in captivity. Alongside the wolf story is a great journey the author makes in seeking her own identity and place. I highly recommend it.
A Personal Account of Wolf Reintroduction.......2000-12-30
Teresa Tsimmu Martino writes a wonderful tale of her rescue of a wild wolf pup which she raises to be wild. Once old enough, Ms. Martino releases the wolf into the wilderness of Washington where it has survived and had her own litter.
Martino's writing is vivid and human and full of the emotion that courses through her veins. She is also a horse trainer and has great stories to tell of her life around horses in her most recent book.
So, buy this book; await its arrival with anticipation and then savour its story as you lose yourself in her words.
Awakening the Wilderness in My Heart.......2000-10-20
I am a hiker and avid outdoors woman living in Colorado. This book created a fire in my heart to be in, love and protect the "wilderness" in our lives. It brings tears to my eyes to remember the teaching and learning between woman and wolf. I am highly recommending this book to my book club for the January read. Her writing is vivid poetry - bringing the reader into the beauty and reality of nature.
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This historical novel catapults the reader into the religious turbulence of the 17th century. It brings to life the true story of Johannes Kelpius, a brilliant young scholar whose spiritual quest leads him from a dark Transylvanian tunnel to a forbidden gathering of initiates in Germany to a mysterious tabernacle hidden near an ancient gorge in Pennsylvania.
On Christmas Eve 1815, a young German-American girl named Lydia receives three strange gifts from a dying aunt. Curious about their origins, she plunges herself into the mystery of a strange seventeenth-century community called "The Woman in the Wilderness" and its young leader, Johannes Kelpius.
For the past three hundred years, stories of wizardry and witchcraft, healing and piety, have surrounded Johannes Kelpius, his brethren in the community, and their tabernacle in the virgin forest. Centuries-old traditions link Kelpius with the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, and the alchemists' search for the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
Together with Lydia, the reader learns the remarkable story of the origins of this enigmatic community, their journey to America, and their establishment of a settlement on a ridge overlooking the romantic Wissahickon Valley, just outside the infant city of Philadelphia.
Here is the true story of Johannes Kelpius and his companions, brought to life as historical fiction. The Woman In The Wilderness is a vivid adventure of religious conflict, spiritual growth, and the dazzling wonder of history in the making.
Customer Reviews:
Mystical Tour de Force.......2006-08-25
Its very rare to come across such a well researched AND well written novel. The author has lived in close proximity to the actual places where the action of the novel takes place. I commend him on doing such fine work making the subject matter and the belief systems of the protagonists both accessible and illuminating to ones own spiritual work. This novel can therefore be read on several levels. I believe any student of mysticism and especially of the Rosicrucian, Sufi and Martinist varieties will find great nourishment here. Kelpius the main character who at a very young age was chosen to lead an early migration of free thinkers and mystics on their migration to the the New World is largely unknown. I think he would have been very happy with this account of his life and interaction with the wide milieu of characters from the time of his youth in Transylvania and Germany and his sensitive meeting withe native americans and local ruffian elements in Pennsylvania. I was particularly impressed by the author's ability to weave elements from a diverse number of sources into a cohesive whole. I recommend this book very highly both for its well written storyline, which is very inspirational since in a sense every mystic is also laboring in a wilderness surrounded by ignorance and self promotion as well as for the deep research which is intelligently presented.
The Next da Vinci Code?.......2005-03-09
What a strange and extraordinary new book.
With it's seekers of knowledge and true wisdom, secret societies, Old Europe science, New World adventures, mystics meditating in Pennsylvania caves, genuine history and examinations of the nature of intolerance, rigidity and fear, this book is like nothing I've yet read.
Toss in a hefty dose of alchemical/astrological/astronomical mysteries (such as the curious and remarkable Holographicum, an instrument that no less than Benjamin Franklin comes to inherit, and is actually on public display in an obscure museum in Philadelphia today), and I think this is a recipe for a blockbuster, break-out book.
I appreciated author Scott's final notes, untangling factual events from fictional narrative. The depth of research into a multitude of obscure topics is evident.
I'm not certain how to categorize this historical novel, but I read it straight through in a weekend, cover to cover.
Perhaps it is best not pigeonholed, but left to speak for itself. That, in itself, seems to be one of the driving points of the book.
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