Going Wild: The Alaska Off Grid Survival Series

by Miles Martin

A first-person account of living in the wilds of Alaska as a Mountain Man! The first in a series of eight books, much of it written in the wilds.Book 1 - Going WildIn 1973, I am 22 years old, and a city kid. I enlisted in the Navy and got out after the Vietnam War. I travel to interior Alaska, a ‘Cheechako’ (Greenhorn) by Alaskan standards. But I have been raised on Walt Disney and feel qualified to be a mountain man!

I arranged with a pilot to drop me off in the wilds of Alaska. I do not have everything I need and have things I do not need. I learn about guns, trapping, and the loneliness of living in the vast wilderness with no other humans around.

I do not see anyone for many months, then walk out of the wilds to civilization in the spring. After working odd jobs to make supply money, I return to the wilds in the fall and have a hard time my second winter. I almost die, and need to be rescued.

I decide to build a houseboat so I can travel around without having to build another cabin. I have to accept summer work in Fairbanks to pay for the boat materials and work under a builder. The boat takes much longer to build than expected.

I live as a street person much of the time to keep expenses down.

328 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 8, 2021

Reviews

[David E. Schutt · Rating 1 out of 5]

This author seems to me to be a f×××××g idiot. I made it to page 8.

I don't throw many books away but this one I did. I've lived in Alaska for over 56 years. I think the rest of this foolishness speaks for itself

[Yvonne Panaro · Rating 3 out of 5]

disappointing

Started out good, but became less interesting with all the letters to the women.
Didn’t measure up to all the other Alaska adventures I’ve read.