The Call of the Last Frontier
Cook, Melissa Lynn / Robson, Rachel I went to Alaska for a job and found a twenty-year adventure!"-Melissa L. Cook
In 1995, schoolteacher Melissa Cook and her young family spent two years in the isolated Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon on the edge of the Bering Sea. They later settled in the Tongass National Forest on Prince of Wales Island, where they measured rain in feet. With humor, vivid detail, and heart-pounding excitement, Melissa recounts her family's day-to-day joys, ...