Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story

Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story
by Charles Craighead, Bonnie Kreps

Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story
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Author: Bonnie Kreps, Charles Craighead
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-05-01
ISBN: 1558686002
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

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Book Review: A Story to Inspire All Interested in Wild Places and Beyond
Summary: 5 Stars

A great deal of thanks should go to Bonnie Kreps and Charlie Craighead for there many years of work dedicated to the life of Mardy Murie. Their double-barreled presentation, first the wonderful film "Arctic Dance, The Mardy Murie Story", and now this fantastic book, tell the story of Margaret "Mardy" Murie like nobody else could.

More like a scrapbook, Arctic Dance brings readers on a journey as rich as any trip to the Brooks Range. Mardy, known by many as the Grandmother of American Conservation movement, has been an inspiration to several generations or activists, policy-makers and wilderness afficionandos. Her experiences and deeds as a child in Alaska, a lover and wife, a wilderness adventurer, an advocate for wild places, and a mentor to so many, give us all an example for how to live life to its fullest with meaning, and grit. Her times with husband Olaus Murie are a testiment to the power of love and partnership and how determination and humility can bring anybody far. Without her, our lives and the state of wilderness would be very different.

Craighead and Kreps bring you on this journey through stories, letters, vivid photographs and telling testimonials from those who knew Mardy best. Reading this book is the next best thing to having tea and cookies with Mardy at her log house in Moose, Wyoming.

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