Good-Bye, Boise-- Hello, Alaska: True Story of a Family's Move to a Remote Island Ranch

by Cora Holmes

Book Overview

"A true story about a mother and her two sons from a town in Idaho who find themselves transplanted to a 200-square-mile sheep range in Alaska's remonte Aleutian Islands, they discover the changes and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089821128X
• ISBN13: 9780898211283
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Reiman Media Group
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring

If you've ever dreamed of getting away from it all, start dreaming again. We've all heard of amazing people who've climbed Everest, etc. But here is one relatively normal human being who plunges herself into a challenging, but very rewarding world, then opens it up to us to share.

Great "Light" Alaska reading

As a boy I deamed of just such an adventure. Cora lives it & shares it with the reader. A very easy read & quite appropriate for a 7th -10th grade reader.

GREAT BOOK!!!

I couldn't put it down. Exciting true story about a mother of two young boys who answers and ad in a newspaper for a job in a remote Alaska ranch. Great story, and all the more exciting because you know it's true. People of all ages will enjoy reading this book. It makes you want to pack up and move to Alaska....

Wish I had the guts!

After one of Cora's sons are brought home by the police one day in Boise, Cora made up her mind to raise her kids without the pressures of today's society. For a single mom with two young sons, it must have taken great courage to pick up and move to Alaska and never look back. Her sons are now young men on their own and with their mothers help now have a love for nature, each other and most importantly a love for themselves. The book was very easy reading and was quite enjoyable. Sometimes I felt I was right there on the island with her. Looking forward to her follow-up book.

I thought it was very interesting and exciting.

It was interesting to see how Cora and her boys could ajust to the new life they had chosen. The area of the island was also very interesting because of the vastness and solitude. Unalaska seems so different from any other place I have read about. The life there seems so strange since there is no one living very close by. It is a very good book. I have passed it on for someone else to read.