Chance Is the Providence of Adventurers
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For this author, a conventional lifestyle at a traditional job was a horribly mundane way to approach life.
In 1979, while still in his twenties, he moved from rural Kentucky to The Last Frontier - Alaska - with his 5-year old Son (Tim) in tow to live and pursue a life of adventure in Alaska's wild and edgy places. This book is a compilation of many of his true-life adventures in Alaska's remote bush country.
The stories are sometimes funny, sometimes deadly, enlightening - and ALL TRUE! The author has a comfortable and witty writing style which takes his readers to these untamed, extremely hazardous places in Alaska and puts them right in the middle of the action!!
Readers will learn that taking chances is an important part of life. It is his hope that readers will realize that everyone (and especially Americans in the Lower 48) should take more chances to improve their lives and not settle for a routine existence. Risking life and limb, in pursuit of life itself, is indeed a rewarding lifestyle. Reinvent yourself, your life and your country. Read how he did it and the rewards he has gained from it.
There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. Many who have read this book have agreed that it changed the way they look at their everyday existence.
The author continues his adventures in Alaska today and lives on his homestead with his wife Sherry, Misty his Lab ... and lots of Moose and Grizzlies ... on Bald Mountain.
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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.
About the Author
M. 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 aft er thirty years of work, Lamkin and his wife, Sherry, live on Bald Mountain, Alaska.