The book that I am reading for SSR is the NOBA (National Outdoor Book Award) winning One Man’s Wilderness by Sam Kieth. The story takes place near the mountainous Twin Lakes territory in Alaska--a wilderness almost completely untouched by the hand of man--and is narrated in first person from the view of Dick Proenneke--the protagonist--of whom the author used the actual journals and pictures--combined with their own first-hand experiences of the subject and setting--to craft a tribute to a man who carved his simple yet never dull dream out of the beyond. Even though I have only read a fourth of the book so far, the author--through complex yet subtle characterization--helps the reader to understand the reason behind Dick’s unwavering self-motivation
