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Chance Is The Providence Of Adventurers
For author M. Scotty Lamkin, a conventional lifestyle at a traditional job was a horribly mundane way to approach life. On January 16, 1979, he arrived in Alaska with fifty dollars in his pocket, two duffel bags, and a backpack. A long way from his Kentucky homeland, Lamkin journeyed to Alaska expecting adventure, and he was not disappointed. Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers narrates many of Lamkin's true-life escapades in Alaska's remote bush country.
In this half-travelogue, half-memoir, Lamkin tells the sometimes funny, sometimes deadly, stories of his experiences as a professional guide and adventurer-waking up a brown bear at close range, sinking a boat in frigid Alaska waters, crashing bush planes, throwing rocks at bears, and experiencing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth.
"Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers" offers a glimpse into the flavor of Alaskan life, provides a firsthand view of the wonders of untamed nature and wildlife, and demonstrates the results of taking a chance to change your life.
In this half-travelogue, half-memoir, Lamkin tells the sometimes funny, sometimes deadly, stories of his experiences as a professional guide and adventurer-waking up a brown bear at close range, sinking a boat in frigid Alaska waters, crashing bush planes, throwing rocks at bears, and experiencing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth.
"Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers" offers a glimpse into the flavor of Alaskan life, provides a firsthand view of the wonders of untamed nature and wildlife, and demonstrates the results of taking a chance to change your life.
208 pages, Paperback
First published July 24, 2012
About the author
M. Scotty Lamkin
1 book3 followersM. SCOTTY LAMKIN ventured to Alaska at the age of twenty-six with his five-year-old son, Tim. As a single parent, he carved out an adventurous life for himself as a professional guide and adventurer. Now retired after thirty years of work, Lamkin and his wife, Sherry, live on Bald Mountain, Alaska.
For author M. Scotty Lamkin, a conventional lifestyle at a traditional job was a horribly mundane way to approach life. On January 16, 1979, he arrived in Alaska with fifty dollars in his pocket, two duffel bags, and a backpack. A long way from his Kentucky homeland, Lamkin journeyed to Alaska expecting adventure, and he was not disappointed. Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers narrates many of Lamkin's true-life escapades in Alaska's remote bush country.
In this half-travelogue, half-memoir, Lamkin tells the sometimes funny, sometimes deadly, stories of his experiences as a professional guide and adventurer-waking up a brown bear at close range, sinking a boat in frigid Alaska waters, crashing bush planes, throwing rocks at bears, and experiencing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth.
Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers offers a glimpse into the flavor of Alaskan life, provides a firsthand view of the wonders of untamed nature and wildlife, and demonstrates the results of taking a chance to change your life.
For author M. Scotty Lamkin, a conventional lifestyle at a traditional job was a horribly mundane way to approach life. On January 16, 1979, he arrived in Alaska with fifty dollars in his pocket, two duffel bags, and a backpack. A long way from his Kentucky homeland, Lamkin journeyed to Alaska expecting adventure, and he was not disappointed. Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers narrates many of Lamkin's true-life escapades in Alaska's remote bush country.
In this half-travelogue, half-memoir, Lamkin tells the sometimes funny, sometimes deadly, stories of his experiences as a professional guide and adventurer-waking up a brown bear at close range, sinking a boat in frigid Alaska waters, crashing bush planes, throwing rocks at bears, and experiencing some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth.
Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers offers a glimpse into the flavor of Alaskan life, provides a firsthand view of the wonders of untamed nature and wildlife, and demonstrates the results of taking a chance to change your life.
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January 15, 2019
I really enjoyed reading this book, partly because it was written by my Mom’s friend’s husband, he was a Kentucky boy, like me, and I lived in Alaska for several years and still have a home there.
Mr. Lamkin is a wonderful story teller and captured a great deal of Alaska’s offerings in his work. I am not a hunter and really have no desire to be, but this book made me want to book a hunt.
I definitely did not like Chapter 7, when Mr. Lamkin went off on a tangent about how women should raise girls and men should raise boys and the reason we have fewer “real men” today is because more single moms are raising their sons alone. I felt this discounted the efforts of single moms and implied there is only one true definition of masculinity. Further, Mr. Lamkin said that the only wimps in Alaska live in Anchorage and wear ties and if ladies are looking for a real man, they should not pick a guy who spent ten minutes this morning deciding what shirt he was going to wear. Mr. Lamkin also said in Chapter 7 that “every time a mother denies her son the right to wrestle around in the backyard, throw a few rocks, spit on the ground, she is teaching him to become more like a woman!” This may be partially generational, and/or cultural, but this entire chapter left a bad taste of toxic masculinity in my mouth.
Aside from Chapter 7, it was a good read. I would recommend for those wanting learn more about big game hunting, visiting Alaska, or simply enjoy reading about outdoor adventures.
Mr. Lamkin is a wonderful story teller and captured a great deal of Alaska’s offerings in his work. I am not a hunter and really have no desire to be, but this book made me want to book a hunt.
I definitely did not like Chapter 7, when Mr. Lamkin went off on a tangent about how women should raise girls and men should raise boys and the reason we have fewer “real men” today is because more single moms are raising their sons alone. I felt this discounted the efforts of single moms and implied there is only one true definition of masculinity. Further, Mr. Lamkin said that the only wimps in Alaska live in Anchorage and wear ties and if ladies are looking for a real man, they should not pick a guy who spent ten minutes this morning deciding what shirt he was going to wear. Mr. Lamkin also said in Chapter 7 that “every time a mother denies her son the right to wrestle around in the backyard, throw a few rocks, spit on the ground, she is teaching him to become more like a woman!” This may be partially generational, and/or cultural, but this entire chapter left a bad taste of toxic masculinity in my mouth.
Aside from Chapter 7, it was a good read. I would recommend for those wanting learn more about big game hunting, visiting Alaska, or simply enjoy reading about outdoor adventures.
May 23, 2013
It has a lot of interesting hunting stories, but if that kind of thing doesn't interest you and you don't have a desire to learn anything about Alaska don't recommend it. On the other hand if you are interested in that kind of thing you'll love it!
October 5, 2013
I never received this book even though I won it as a Goodreads winner.
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