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'Guy Grieve jacked in his desk job to spend a year alone in the Alaskan wilderness. With only moose, bears and wolves for company, he survived freezing temperatures, built a log cabin, learned to hunt and handle a dog team and had several brushes with death.'
(Metro )'The book captures Grieve's maverick adventure, and has an energy and pace to it, a compelling, rushing quality, like a dog sled chasing through the snowscape . . . also has a real flavour of the frontier, told by a man who shoots a hole in his roof for a chimney with his shotgun, and puts a recipe for beaver ribs and pea soup in the end notes. CALL OF THE WILD may be the perfect present to give your dreamy spouse for Christmas, but you risk him stealing out of the house at 2am with his snowshoes on. One awaits his next adventure with anticipation.'
(Scotsman )'Hilarious'
(Daily Mail )'A wild adventure'
(Independent )Glasgow Herald
`Riveting, well-written, amusing and sometimes deeply affecting.'
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
After reading part of the story in a newspaper I knew I had to get a copy as soon as it came out.
It tells the tale of one mans dream to get away from mundane life and do something wild and dangerous. He could have went down into any club late at night I suppose, but he chose a safer place.
ALASKA!
Once you have got your head round the fact that he left his wife and two kids behind off he sets after having made contact with an Alaskan family. Without wishing to give too much of the story away, he basically has to build a cabin on his own, surrounded by bears, wolves and little or no contact with anyone.
If he injured himself with a chainsaw or a simple cut he had to deal with it himself. As becomes clear, many people die this way, alone and very vulnerable.
Along with a reluctant partner........Fuzzy the dog, the book really does draw you in with every page. You feel like you know the author personaly by the end of it.
Men or women will love this book, I would reccomend it to the casual or avid reader and anyone thinking there own life is run of the mill. This will probably bring you straight back to reality.
I will be looking for other books of this type thats for sure!
It tells the tale of one mans dream to get away from mundane life and do something wild and dangerous. He could have went down into any club late at night I suppose, but he chose a safer place.
ALASKA!
Once you have got your head round the fact that he left his wife and two kids behind off he sets after having made contact with an Alaskan family. Without wishing to give too much of the story away, he basically has to build a cabin on his own, surrounded by bears, wolves and little or no contact with anyone.
If he injured himself with a chainsaw or a simple cut he had to deal with it himself. As becomes clear, many people die this way, alone and very vulnerable.
Along with a reluctant partner........Fuzzy the dog, the book really does draw you in with every page. You feel like you know the author personaly by the end of it.
Men or women will love this book, I would reccomend it to the casual or avid reader and anyone thinking there own life is run of the mill. This will probably bring you straight back to reality.
I will be looking for other books of this type thats for sure!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A superb book, an incredibly well written, honest, often hilarious, sometimes emotional account...I couldn't put it down!
Guy Grieve's journey into the Alaskan interior strips away all the romantic notions of wilderness living. His experience is one of this painful realisation tempered by the real drive to survive in one of the worlds harshest environments. Grieve's stamina and determination is admirable, sharing his internal struggle to come to terms with his circumstances with profound honesty and humility. Battling freezing conditions, moose, bears, part feral sled dogs and profound homesickness, Grieve carves out a life for himself that most of us only romantically dream about from the comfort of our armchairs. We may never have the courage to follow that dream but Grieve did and it makes one hell of a story.
Guy Grieve's journey into the Alaskan interior strips away all the romantic notions of wilderness living. His experience is one of this painful realisation tempered by the real drive to survive in one of the worlds harshest environments. Grieve's stamina and determination is admirable, sharing his internal struggle to come to terms with his circumstances with profound honesty and humility. Battling freezing conditions, moose, bears, part feral sled dogs and profound homesickness, Grieve carves out a life for himself that most of us only romantically dream about from the comfort of our armchairs. We may never have the courage to follow that dream but Grieve did and it makes one hell of a story.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book for my father-in-law for Christmas - he's got a thing for anything Alaskan. He lent it to me last week and I finished it in no time flat. It was a great adventure! You could really see the characters as described! There were sections of the book I got really choked up and I was really sad when I was done with it! Makes me want to email the author and ask loads of questions! Oh and I too miss Fluffy!!
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Great Adventure
Guy Grieve writes in clear and descriptive language about his wilderness experience in alaska,and i looked forward to each chapter to see how he was dealing with the herculean... Read more
Published 23 days ago by phil spence
Wild Call
I really liked this book and recommend it to .... <thinks> ..... yes, pretty much everyone. It is thought provoking and challenging on so many subjects:
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Published 5 months ago by Duncan R
THE BEST .
I have never got into a book as much as this ,you really feel as though you are
with him through all the highs and low's. Read more
with him through all the highs and low's. Read more
Published 6 months ago by itsclarky
The perfect escape
This is a book that falls into the category - unputdownable, its well written, absorbing, interesting and speaks to that restless part in all of us, well nearly all of us, the part... Read more
Published 14 months ago by S. Fitzsimmons
Excellent read
Excellent read just about sums it up. I found the book gripping throughout and well written. Hard as is might be to imagine the hardships encountered by someone living in an... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Daf
Really enjoyable
'Call of the Wild' is an entertaining, engaging and thought-provoking read. There are some hilarious passages in the book, and some pretty intimidating anecdotes about Grieve's... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Alex W
Never chat about 'beaver' with an Alaskan ....
A really good read, with enough action in it to keep me turning pages into the wee small hours.
Like a few others, I did have some reservations about his reasons for... Read more
Like a few others, I did have some reservations about his reasons for... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2009 by Juno
A Compelling Adventure of a Man and his Dog
Guy Grieve writes with honest sensitivity. With the support of his wife and friends he does something that at one time or another many of us have thought of or would like to do at... Read more
Published on 9 April 2009 by Roger Barfoot
Guy's call of the wild
Totally fantastic, and a real pleasure to read. It was heart warming and well written FACTUAL brilliance, of an ordinary mans extraordinary journey in the freezing Iceland's of the... Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2008 by Andrew Price
Absolutely Fantastic
IF you want to be transported to another place for a while, then this is the book for you absolutely fantastic, The author is great at telling this story not only this but he even... Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2008 by Mr. G. J. Stenhouse
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