{"product_id":"the-only-kayak-by-kim-heacox","title":"The Only Kayak By Kim Heacox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Classic!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and bears cross crevasses with Homeric resolve. In such a place Heacox finds that people are reborn too, and their lives begin anew with incredible journeys, epiphanies, and successes. All in an America free of crass commercialism and overdevelopment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBraided through the larger story are tales of gold prospectors and the cabin they built sixty years ago; John Muir and his intrepid terrier, Stickeen; and a dynamic geology professor who teaches earth science \"as if every day were a geological epoch.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly two million people come to Alaska every summer, some on large cruise ships, some in single kayaks--all in search of the last great wilderness, the Africa of America. It is exactly the America Heacox finds in this story of paradox, love, and loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Todd Communications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52183843438881,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2572\/2312\/files\/a_c79132ea-a302-4ba8-ad07-c95f2fdca87b.jpg?v=1767223100","url":"https:\/\/www.woodbowl.com\/products\/the-only-kayak-by-kim-heacox","provider":"Great Alaskan Bowl Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}