A Land Gone Lonesome

Part travelogue, part adventure, part love letter to a vanishing world, "A Land Gone Lonesome" is one man's journey along Alaska's Yukon River. Beginning in Yukon Territory, Canada, Dan O'Neill journeyed in a canoe down the Yukon River to Circle City, Alaska. "A Land Gone Lonesome" tells the story o [...]
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Part travelogue, part adventure, part love letter to a vanishing world, "A Land Gone Lonesome" is one man's journey along Alaska's Yukon River. Beginning in Yukon Territory, Canada, Dan O'Neill journeyed in a canoe down the Yukon River to Circle City, Alaska. "A Land Gone Lonesome" tells the story of his experiences, and of some of the unique characters he encountered along the way, such as Charley River Charlie at his fish camp in a dog-fur vest, and a Russian born Canadian geologist who explains that the Yukon used to flow in the other direction, until a glacier impounded it and it carved this escape route through the hills to the north. The narrative always returns to O'Neill's canoe or camp, to the central story of a few souls clinging to the old ways in a beautiful and hostile country - even though government policies are extinguishing them. These wilderness dwellers are not just colourful anachronisms, but a living archive of North American pioneer values. Blending together natural history and humanity, "A Land Gone Lonesome" is a brilliant piece of literary travel writing.