Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography

by June Burn

Hardcover, 1958

Call number

NWC 920 BURN

Collection

Northwest

Genres

Publication

Wellington Books (1958), Edition: First Thus

Description

June Burn's 1941 classic continues to capture the imagination of readers who long for the adventures that few people will ever have the nerve nor the time to undertake. Courage, gaiety, and a fresh approach to life are reflected in this "unconventional autobiography." It is a story of twentieth-century pioneers as resourceful as ever they were in the days of the old frontier. June Burn and her husband Farrar determined to go their own sweet way, enjoying "first hand living" and not surrendering to the routines of a workaday world. Through the years they had some high and glorious adventures, which included homesteading a "gumdrop" in the San Juan islands of the Pacific Northwest, teaching Eskimos near Siberia, and exploring the United States by donkey cart with a baby aboard.… (more)

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LibraryThing member SeriousGrace
Living High is called an "Unconventional Autobiography" and I would have to agree. Not because it doesn't cover a life from the sunrise of birth to the sunset of death, but because it has a moral to the story. There is a lesson to be learned within Living High's pages and that lesson is live life
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 to the fullest. Enjoy every single moment of each and every day. June is elegant and adventurous when describing living on the gumdrop island of Sentinel off Puget Sound with her husband, Farrar; or remembering walrus hunting and dogsledding in Alaska; or later, bombing around the west coast in the Burn's Ballad Bungalow with Farrar and two kids (named North and South, I kid you not).
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ISBN

0970739990 / 9780970739995

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