More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation.
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, he now lives on a farm in Spring Hill, Tennessee, with his wife, Rita, and their family..
Jenkins has written several more chronicles of his travels, including The New York Times bestsellers The Walk West and Across China , and Along the Edge of America and Close Friends .
About the Author: Peter Jenkins \' 1979 written chronicle and photographs of his first journey, A Walk Across America , spent three months on The New York Times bestseller list.
All in all, Jenkins delivers a warm, funny, awe-inspiring, and memorable diary of discovery-both of this place that captures all of our imaginations, and of himself, all over again.
The way his family lived, how they made Alaska their home and even participated in Peter\'s explorations, is as much a part of this story as Peter\'s own travels.
He also took his wife and eight-year-old daughter with him, settling into a "home base" in Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, coming and going from there, and hosting the rest of their family for extended visits.
His resulting portrait is a rare and unforgettable depiction of a dangerous and beautiful land and all the people that call it home.
Hearing the amazing stories of many real Alaskans--from Barrow to Craig, Seward to Deering, and everywhere in between--Peter gets to know this place in the way that only he can.
Looking for Alaska is Peter\'s account of eighteen months spent traveling over twenty thousand miles in tiny bush planes, on snow machines and snowshoes, in fishing boats and kayaks, on the Alaska Marine Highway and the Haul Road, searching for what defines Alaska.
Certainly, he found all of this and more in Alaska, America\'s last wilderness.
Perhaps he is Looking for adventure, perhaps inspiration, perhaps new communities, perhaps unspoiled land.
Now, Peter is a bit older, married with a family, and his journeys are different than they were.
His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America , captured the hearts of millions of Americans.
More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation
