Edge of Tomorrow: An Arctic Year

By Sam Wright

From the last great wilderness, in the Brooks Range of Alaska, one hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle, Sam Wright speaks to an emerging view of nature as an interconnected, dynamic whole. Living in a hand-built, 12'-by-12' cabin, Wright records seasonal changes and his own thoughts as he and his wife live a year in isolation and contemplation. Here, nature truly seems to be a part of the emotion of daily life. With humor and insight, philosopher-ecologist Wright details an almanac of human experience and arctic allegories that uncover many of life's paradoxes.

During a sabbatical leave in 1968, Sam Wright and his new wife, Billie, moved into the wilderness of Alaska. They wanted to experience intimately the traditional, Native American way of life by emulating it as much as possible. Billie Wright's award-winning book, Four Seasons North: A Journal of Life in the Alaskan Wilderness, was her account of their first year in the cabin which they named Koviashuvik, an Eskimo word for "living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness." Billie died in December 1987. In 1988, Sam published Koviashuvik as the second volume in their library of nature philosophy. Edge of Tomorrow is the third in the Wrights' series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874221676
• ISBN13: 9780874221671
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I live in Alaska. I couldn't have read a more enjoyable book

Sam's book, written from his cabin 100 miles north of the arctic circle, is a contemporary adventure story par excellence. I'm a recent University graduate in sustainable agriculture now living in Alaska. I appreciate Sam's view of living with the land, not just upon it.

Wrights philosophy of life.

Edge of Tomorrow By Sam Wright Reviewed by Frank Kadish Few people are able to synthesize their lives from being born and raised in the west, to being a scientist, to become a minister in a free thinking liberal church, to an be outdoorsman and to put into practice his philosophy by combining it with living off the land as our ancestors did. My wife bought the book at our meeting of our group interested in communing with nature. I spent the last three hours reading it in one gulp. It has been as satisfying an afternoon as I have had in many a year. Sam structures his philosophy and experience with the calendar and the events of the year in his in his cabin just below the Arctic Circle. His wisdom comes thru the stories he tells and the parables that he creates. With his wide-ranging experience in life, his story becomes an adventure of the mind. Get the book and enjoy.