Product Description

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm’s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West’s premier voices.

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A Story Worth Telling        Rating:

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. While I wasn't too crazy about reading into the college party scene, I suffered through it as such was a key player in Fromm's psychological journey.

I will recommend (and probably loan) this book to several people, but I can understand that it may not be for everybody.

However, if you've ever spent time in the wilderness alone, or spent time isolated anywhere really, then I believe you'll appreciate this book.

Interesting at times, but overall a mundane read        Rating:

Overall, I was disappointed with this book after finishing it. While it does have it's high points, the page turning sections are few and far between. The rest of the book is filled with fairly boring and mundane details of the authors time spent living in the wilderness. It certainly did not live up to my expectations that were set by the other reviewers.

Good read        Rating:

Pete Fromm has told the story of doing something most only dream about, a winter alone in a remote wilderness.

Interesting adventure in the wilds of Idaho        Rating:

An exciting, engaging, informative memoir about a 19 year old U. of Montana Wildlife Biology major, who quits school going into his jr. year to take a job over the winter 85 miles away, into the wilderness of the Bitterroot Mts of Idaho, tending baby salmon by keeping ice jams from forming on a creek. Pete's always been enamored of the image of being a mountain man and as a complete greenhorn he sets off with his new puppy, sorely unprepared for his 7 month sojourn of isolation in a tent. We survive in the bitter cold among the wild animals along with Pete, learning as he learns, in his often humorous, good natured, self deprecating style. The writing flows easily, beautifully detailed, keeping you pinned to the pages far into the night. There is an incident of sickening heartache for the senseless killing of a beautiful animal, and brutal description of an animal in a trap which is hard to take, but it speaks to the power of Fromm's writing. I love a book that presents new material that fascinates me to the point of follow-up research, and this book does just that (if you want to know more about tanning an animal hide and how brains (!) [...]). A very enjoyable read though I would have loved some pictures! Highly recommend.

Honest and engrossing        Rating:

A brilliant account. Touching, straightforward, and absorbing. This book led me to read every other book Fromm has written.

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