TALKING TO ANGELS: A LIFE SPENT IN HIGH LATITUDES Robert Perkins 1996 1st ed Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available (Perkins, Robert)

	Item #: PL161-2936 TALKING TO ANGELS: A LIFE SPENT IN HIGH LATITUDES Robert Perkins 1996 1st ed Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available By Perkins, Robert Price: $2.99 List Price: $18.00 You Save $15.01 (83%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
Detailed Product Description
Boston, 1996, 1st edition. 106 pp, photos. New hardcover with dust jacket. The 'angels' of the title are the fearsome guards in a psychiatric hospital where, at 19, Perkins was confined for a year in 1968. Here, nearly three decades later, he is able to recreate that surreal experience in a miraculous blend of the objective and sensate realities. No less stunning are his accounts of frightening and exhilarating months spent alone on the Arctic tundra, where he lived in a meat locker, and of the anguishing death of his young wife after three months of marriage. But although these three powerful tales might otherwise be depressing, they are rescued by Perkins's sense of the absurd and by a voice, pure and beautiful, that speaks compellingly of fear and bravery, of an intimacy with nature and of love and loss. Perkins, a documentary filmmaker and author (Into the Great Solitude), has produced a small classic on journeys into the human condition. A fragile, dolorous triptych of derangement, exploration, and loss from the Arctic-rambling filmmaker Perkins (Into the Great Solitude, 1991, etc.). This memoir starts with the 19-year-old Perkins being packed off, raving, to a psychiatric hospital. His mind is in chaos, and his days at the institution--doped up, surrounded by comrades-in-unbalance, wrapped in wet sheets for being a bad boy- -are like a dream, a really bad dream (the angels of the title are, in part, the none-too-sensitive ward attendants at the hospital). When he manages to tuck in the frayed edges, he heads for an equally unforgiving terrain: the Arctic Northwest Territories of Canada, there to serve as a weather watcher for the region's pilots. His stint completed, he embarks on a long, moseying canoe voyage along far-north riverways, frequently getting out of the water to explore the hinterland, something few Arctic travelers do. Here he finds the setting that will make his reputation as a writer and public-television filmmaker; as much as any outlander can, he stitches himself right into the landscape, at one point communing with a dead musk ox for a few days, emerging with an undistilled reverence for both beast and place. Then the story jumps to the year following his young wife's death of cancer (another of the title's angels, this time truly angelic), as Perkins must once again darn an unraveled sleeve of life. Back in Massachusetts, where his wife had undergone treatment (and also where he had done time in the asylum), Perkins frames a series of quick remembrances of her, capturing the unsettled peace he has made with dark circumstance. Perkins's 46 years have been a long, hard haul, but the guy's an artful survivor, unafraid to face the demons.
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available Items From This Author Items From This Category CHOMOLUNGMA SINGS THE BLUES: TRAVELS ROUND EVEREST Ed Douglas 1997 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine *By: Douglas, Ed* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $125.00, You Save $105.01 (84%) *- Item # BK393B-288* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CHOMOLUNGMA SINGS THE BLUES: TRAVELS ROUND EVEREST Ed Douglas 2001 1st US ed New Paperback *By: Douglas, Ed* Price $3.99 ~ Regular $14.95, You Save $10.96 (73%) *- Item # BK393C-765* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart YOUNG EXPLORERS Richard Gilbert 1979 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available *By: Gilbert, Richard* Price $0.99 ~ Regular $25.00, You Save $24.01 (96%) *- Item # OP8365-6124* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ROBERT BYRON: LETTERS HOME Robert Byron 1991 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available *By: Byron, Robert and Lucy Butler (Editor)* Price $5.99 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $29.01 (83%) *- Item # BK224-3637* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CLIMB OR DIE: A TEST OF SURVIVAL [Novel Children] Edward Myers 1996 Paperback Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Myers, Edward* Price $2.95 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $17.05 (85%) *- Item # BK5842-8362* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart WILDEST DREAM: THE BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE MALLORY Peter and Leni Gillman 2000 Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available *By: Gillman, Peter and Leni* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $27.95, You Save $17.96 (64%) *- Item # BK524D-6356* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart EXPEDITION GUIDE Wally Keay 1996 3rd ed Softcover New 2 Copies Available *By: Keay, Wally* Price $3.95 ~ Regular $34.95, You Save $31.00 (89%) *- Item # BK775-2742* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart APPALACHIA: FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 1926 95 Very Good - Fine Multiple Copies Available *By: Appalachian Mountain Club* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $24.95, You Save $14.96 (60%) *- Item # JR566-3785* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MAGIC MOUNTAINS Rennie McOwan 1996 Hardcover DJ New 2 Copies Available *By: McOwan, Rennie* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $25.00, You Save $20.01 (80%) *- Item # BK980-2742* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HIGH SUMMER: BACKPACKING THE CANADIAN ROCKIES Chris Townsend Hardcover DJ New Multiple Copies Available *By: Townsend, Chris* Price $0.99 ~ Regular $25.00, You Save $24.01 (96%) *- Item # BK1572-58318* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author. A BOULDERERS GUIDE TO LINDFIELD ROCKS 1998 1st ed Pamphlet VG SIGNED by Warwick Williams *By: Williams, Warwick* Price $15.00 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $15.00 (50%) *- Item # GB3315-929* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart AMERICAN DISCOVERY TRAIL EXPLORER'S GUIDEBOOK Reese Lukei 1995 1st ed New Paperback Multiple Copies Available *By: Lukei, Reese (Editor)* Price $0.49 ~ Regular $14.95, You Save $14.46 (97%) *- Item # BK919-22410* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart JEG GAR PA SKI [I AM SKIING] Tomm Murstad 1956 Paperback Near Fine *By: Murstad, Tomm* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $99.95, You Save $79.96 (80%) *- Item # OP6590-374* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MODERN SNOW AND ICE TECHNIQUES. March, Bill. 1984 SIGNED by Bill March *By: March, Bill.* Price $20.00 *- Item # BK941* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart L'ACONCAGUA NON HA VOLUTO [THE ACONCAGUA DID NOT WANT] Mario Fantin 1967 Pamphlet Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Fantin, Mario* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $99.95, You Save $79.96 (80%) *- Item # OP6263-3812* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HIGH ALASKA: A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO DENALI, MOUNT FORAKER & MOUNT HUNTER Jonathan Waterman 1988 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available *By: Waterman, Jon, photos by Bradford Washburn* Price $59.00 ~ Regular $99.95, You Save $40.95 (41%) *- Item # GB1220A-9634* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart TOURNAMENT OF SHADOWS: THE RACE FOR EMPIRE IN CENTRAL ASIA Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac 1999 1st ed New Hardcover DJ 3 Copies Available *By: Meyer, Karl and Shareen Brysac* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $32.50, You Save $27.51 (85%) *- Item # BK1046-8513* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart NAWOK! THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION TO NEW GUINEA'S HIGHEST MOUNTAINS Philip Temple 1962 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine 2 Copies Available *By: Temple, Philip* Price $24.99 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $5.01 (17%) *- Item # OP242-4202* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart I CHOSE TO CLIMB 1977 6th UK prtg Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Chris Bonington *By: Bonington, Chris* Price $49.00 *- Item # OP436D-866* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN: DIARIES OF WASHBURN'S ALASKA EXPEDITIONS 2001 Brad Washburn 1st ed Paperback Fine 2 Copies Available [Not Signed] *By: Washburn, Bradford* Price $15.99 ~ Regular $19.95, You Save $3.96 (20%) *- Item # BK1644A-2672* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart