My Life of High Adventure

by Grant H. Pearson, Philip Newill

Overview

MT. MCKINLEY, ALASKA 1932

From the south peak, a hundred thousand square miles of Alaskan wilderness stretched out before his eyes.

This was America’s last land frontier. It was the land Grant Pearson had dreamed of as a boy and lived in, full, as a man, when he came to be known as one of Alaska’s most famous 20th century pioneers. This was how to chose to live his LIFE OF HIGH ADVENTURE…

“Exciting, vivid…an excellent account.”—Hal Borland, New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789124057
Publisher:	Papamoa Press
Publication date:	12/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

PHIL NEWILL AND GRANT PEARSON first got together in the spruce grove at McKinley Park headquarters back in the summer of 1946. Pearson was park superintendent, and Newill was using a vacation from the advertising business in New York to roam around Alaska collecting material for travel articles. They hit it off at once. It was Newill’s idea that no vacation should be used for anything but traveling around viewing as many as possible of nature’s spectacular chunks of scenery. He had become dedicated to telling other people this fact...if you can be said to be dedicated to something you thoroughly enjoy.

This attitude toward life and nature started in Portland, Oregon, where Phil Newill grew up and spent his non-school time hiking and camping on mountains, lakes and rivers, climbing Mt. Hood, riding a bicycle from Portland to Los Angeles, and engaging in other field-and-stream types of activity. At Stanford University he got bitten by the typewriter bug, edited the college newspaper, and in a few years found himself in New York writing advertisements around such headlines as “Nature in the Raw is Seldom Mild” (as any woods traveler knows).

It was a natural for Phil Newill and Grant Pearson to team up. As Newill says, “Grant is the kind of guy who has lived a life that is exciting to hear about...and even more exciting to write about.”