The true story of the Helmericks family who has lived for over sixty years on the edge of the Arctic Ocean along Alaska's northern coast. It is an amazing saga of a unique frontier-homestead life on a remote island in the Colville River Delta. A life laced with hard work, adventures, struggles, joys, setbacks, and successes--all wrapped in a fiercely independent and free lifestyle.

This fascinating story of life in this harsh but beautiful land stretches over 60 years of wilderness survival beginning with the early days of bare necessities and tent accommodations, to a modern home with all the amenities; from transportation that was limited to a small bush airplane in which to cross the vast distances between home and civilization, to vehicles traveling those distances on new roads; from going months between any communication with the outside world, to constant digital communications now available in the modern world.

The Helmericks home is an island of wilderness, a specially protected sanctuary that is home to hundreds of birds and other wildlife. The land has remained unchanged even though their living conditions have evolved from small tents to modern homes and isolation has given way to more neighbors thanks to the expansion of the petroleum industry. Despite the many changes all around them, the Helmericks love and hang on to the independent life they carved out of a harsh but beautiful land.

Read about:

• Survival in the cold dark winters.

• Raising a family at the top of the world.

• Encounters with polar bears, caribou and many other Arctic animals.

• And so much more!