(Paperback - English - 9781542578950)
Is it impossible to be lonely, or is loneliness an impossibly difficult thing? In the first part of this book, Chinle Miller wanders the desert and mountains with her dogs, exploring nature and an inner life of solitude, until an event happens that shakes her life to its core-her best-friend and cousin Janie is killed by a grizzly in Alaska.Grieving and becoming more and more fearful and obsessed with bears, Chinle heads north, stopping in the Yukon, then finally making her way to Alaska's Chugach Range, where her cousin was killed.There, after learning more about Janie's death, she begins a new journey, one that takes her to British Columbia's Great Bear Rainfo ..