Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder

NOT REALLY AN ALASKAN MOUNTAIN MAN recounts author Doug Fine’s hysterically funny attempts to adjust to rural Alaskan life after growing up in the suburbs of New York. During the harsh winter of 1998, our narrator has to contend with broken down snowmachines, heavy dead whales, frozen pipes, angry moose and disorientation in a bear-packed wilderness. And yet, somehow, he decides all the frostbite and embarrassment are worth it: at least he doesn’t have to face traffic jams.

NOT REALLY AN ALASKAN MOUNTAIN MAN, Fine’s first book (2004) will make you laugh out loud, and at the same time touch you as you realize that beneath Fine’s bumbling there lies a life-affirming philosophy and a love of wilderness beauty. These are things that he won’t lose even if the locals are still chuckling over his first winter’s shenanigans. All of which are detailed in side-splitting candor on the pages of NOT REALLY AN ALASKAN MOUNTAIN MAN.

You can also order Doug’s Second Book, Farewell, My Subaru.