The Only Kayak: Journeys into the Heart of Alaska

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

F912

2004-063302

1-59228-715-8

The only kayak; journeys into the heart of Alaska.

Heacox, Kim.

The Lyons Press, [c]2005

249 p.

$24.95

Heacox's book is both a coming-of-(middle)age memoir and a love story, with Alaska serving as both the journey's end and the beloved. While Heacox writes passionately about his home in Glacier Bay, he also acknowledges the inevitability of change there. In prose that is both lyrical and powerful, he gives the reader a complete picture of the beauty of that wilderness and what will be lost in its deterioration.