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Woodswoman: Young Ecologist Meets Challenge Living Alone Adirondack Wilderness
Woodswoman Young Ecologist Meets Challenge Living Alone Adirondack Wilderness
Author: Anne LaBastille
Many have dreamed of building a cabin in the wilderness and living there alone in the solitude of a region that is far from civilization. Here is the unusual story of a young wildlife ecologist who has done just that. When her marriage ended in divorce, Anne LaBastille bought twenty-two acres of virgin forest on a lonely lake in New York State&#...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140153347
ISBN-10: 0140153349
Publication Date: 10/11/1991
Pages: 288
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 28 ratings
Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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 julie avatar reviewed Woodswoman: Young Ecologist Meets Challenge Living Alone Adirondack Wilderness on + 28 more book reviews
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Thought this book was very interesting. Wish I had the courage to live alone in the Adirondack Wilderness.
reviewed Woodswoman: Young Ecologist Meets Challenge Living Alone Adirondack Wilderness on + 120 more book reviews
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Following a divorce the author builds her own permanent cabin on 20 acres in the Adirondack mountains and relays her adventures of living in the wilderness.
reviewed Woodswoman: Young Ecologist Meets Challenge Living Alone Adirondack Wilderness on + 9 more book reviews
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very interesting true story
reviewed Woodswoman: Young Ecologist Meets Challenge Living Alone Adirondack Wilderness on + 2 more book reviews
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I enjoyed this book very much. Being raised in the Adirondacks, I recognized & and been to many of the places the author talked about and recognized the loneliness, beauty and uniqeness of the area. It made me homesick and brought back many happy memories of an area cherished in my heart & soul.

You will shiver with cold as the author describes the winter wind freezing Black Bear Lake up as winter sets in, marvel at her ingeniusness as she builds her log cabin by herself, cry with her when someone brings her the pelt of her pet silver fox. It was a wonderful, descriptive look into life in the Adirondack Mountains and I look forward to reading her other books. Anne LaBastille sounds like a truly remarkable woman!
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VERY easy read, would be good for a young girl (12-15?), inspiring story, but very simply written
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 cyndil62 avatar reviewed Woodswoman: Young Ecologist Meets Challenge Living Alone Adirondack Wilderness on + 30 more book reviews
This was an enlightening look at the life of one woman who lived in a cabin in the Adirondack Mountains next to a lake following her divorce. This beautiful woman did most of the construction on her 12x12 cabin except for raising the walls and putting on the roof. She also had help with the plumbing and gas lines. She lived with no electricity, only propane tanks and kerosene lights. No bathroom as we know it, only an outhouse and then later a rigged up toilet inside. She had to enter and leave the cabin by boat and the closest town was miles away.
Anne LaBastille is a dedicated ecologist who loved nature and her cabin in the woods. To say that she 'found herself' in the wilderness is to reduce Anne's story to the most simple. Her life consisted of hard physical labor and loneliness, but this was the life she chose.
She built this first cabin around 1965, so in places the book is dated but still of great interest to those of us who feel a connection with nature. I give the book a 5 star rating not because of the writing itself but because of Anne's story which is an inspiration!
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A great read about an exceptional woman.


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