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The Walking on Ice Memoir Trilogy #2
Nesting on the Nushagak
Nesting On The Nushagak is the 2nd book in a trilogy of memoirs which are part romance and part “girl’s own adventure”. It picks up the story as Emma and her new husband begin married life teaching in a remote Yup’ik Eskimo village in SW Alaska where they face the isolation, bitter cold, and semi-dark of the long Alaskan winters. For adventurous romantics and arm-chair travellers alike.
Having recently married the man she met online, New Zealander Emma Stevens, follows her new American husband to a teaching post in a remote Yup'ik Eskimo village in southwestern Alaska. In this harsh climate she joins the local people in their subsistence way of life, gathering and storing food during the extended summer daylight hours in preparation for the grim realities of the bitter cold, semi-darkness and isolation of the long Alaskan winters.
Written with humor in the face of unexpected and at times life-threatening situations, Nesting on the Nushagak, the sequel memoir to the popular Walking on Ice, transports the reader deep into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness and the people who live there.
Having recently married the man she met online, New Zealander Emma Stevens, follows her new American husband to a teaching post in a remote Yup'ik Eskimo village in southwestern Alaska. In this harsh climate she joins the local people in their subsistence way of life, gathering and storing food during the extended summer daylight hours in preparation for the grim realities of the bitter cold, semi-darkness and isolation of the long Alaskan winters.
Written with humor in the face of unexpected and at times life-threatening situations, Nesting on the Nushagak, the sequel memoir to the popular Walking on Ice, transports the reader deep into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness and the people who live there.
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Published January 13, 2016
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December 16, 2017
Written by Emma Stevens — Nesting on the Nushagak is the second book of a trio of memoirs of life and love in the Alaskan wilderness written by New Zealand author Emma Stevens. After stumbling upon, reading, and finding myself captivated by the first book, Walking on Ice, I immediately purchased this one.
While the first book flips back and forth between New Zealand and Alaska memories, this book takes up essentially where the first left off. Nesting on the Nushagak focuses on the author's time spent teaching in the Alaskan bush at New Stuyahok, a small village in southern Alaska located on the Nushagak River. Stevens worked there as a teacher among the native people of Alaska alongside her husband Gary, the principal at the New Stuyahok school.
What really shines through in this book is the author's heart for indigenous peoples and her abiding respect for their cultures. This is made plain in the first book where the author details her interest in and love of the Maori peoples and culture, the indigenous peoples of New Zealand. She effortlessly develops the same appreciation for and interest in the Native American people of Alaska.
The stories that Stevens tells are beyond heart-warming and thoroughly stir the reader's emotions. Her admirable dedication to teaching and sincere interest in helping to educate her students is another salient feature of this uplifting and moving memoir.
One of the things I found most appealing in this book and the last is the fact that Emma Stevens' stories always focused outwardly on the people she meets and grows to love. Everything she writes about herself seems almost an afterthought, as though included only peripherally. It is through this the reader quickly develops a sense for what a strong, caring, and special person Emma Stevens really is.
While Nesting on the Nushagak can be read as a stand-alone, I recommend reading the first book, Waking on Ice first, to acquire the full background information that will help the reader fully appreciate the stories in this second book. Stevens is a fine writer with a flair for detail that makes her an excellent storyteller. I was just as impressed with this second offering as with the first book in the series. It's a pleasing and touching tale of life and love in the Alaskan wilderness.
While the first book flips back and forth between New Zealand and Alaska memories, this book takes up essentially where the first left off. Nesting on the Nushagak focuses on the author's time spent teaching in the Alaskan bush at New Stuyahok, a small village in southern Alaska located on the Nushagak River. Stevens worked there as a teacher among the native people of Alaska alongside her husband Gary, the principal at the New Stuyahok school.
What really shines through in this book is the author's heart for indigenous peoples and her abiding respect for their cultures. This is made plain in the first book where the author details her interest in and love of the Maori peoples and culture, the indigenous peoples of New Zealand. She effortlessly develops the same appreciation for and interest in the Native American people of Alaska.
The stories that Stevens tells are beyond heart-warming and thoroughly stir the reader's emotions. Her admirable dedication to teaching and sincere interest in helping to educate her students is another salient feature of this uplifting and moving memoir.
One of the things I found most appealing in this book and the last is the fact that Emma Stevens' stories always focused outwardly on the people she meets and grows to love. Everything she writes about herself seems almost an afterthought, as though included only peripherally. It is through this the reader quickly develops a sense for what a strong, caring, and special person Emma Stevens really is.
While Nesting on the Nushagak can be read as a stand-alone, I recommend reading the first book, Waking on Ice first, to acquire the full background information that will help the reader fully appreciate the stories in this second book. Stevens is a fine writer with a flair for detail that makes her an excellent storyteller. I was just as impressed with this second offering as with the first book in the series. It's a pleasing and touching tale of life and love in the Alaskan wilderness.
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