Reviews for Yearning Wild: Exploring the Last Frontier and the Landscape of the Heart

The average rating for Yearning Wild: Exploring the Last Frontier and the Landscape of the Heart based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-29 00:00:00 Amy Bredemeyer Man leaves oppressive Mennonite upbringing to start life in Alaska. Man starts life of adventure and tells a good tale about those adventures. Man shacks up with lady and has kid. Man abandons family for many years of traveling around the world (even pleading by his daughter did not get him to return). Man lives in a state of spiritual confusion coping with his abdication and with the loss of wild places, the places he abandoned. Books ends with man in state of high religious confusion, calling everyone to join him in this state in order to save the last wilderness spaces in the world. I enjoyed this book until about midway, maybe a little further. But once he began his decent into abdication of his familial duties and weird spiritual journey, I lost interest quickly. If the book had gone off the rails earlier I wouldn't have finished it but I finished it in the hopes that his journey would lead to some lasting, some real peace in his life. I was disappointed to find it out it didn't. This was a tragedy, not a memoir.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-27 00:00:00 Nancy White This was my favorite book for about a year. Something about it just struck a chord. Written with the grit of a true of Alaskan who is overcome by the magic of that place, and desperate to save the wildness that is slipping away.