• Over 450,000 sold.
• Complete redesign with 75 color images throughout (many of which haven't been in print in the book for 20 years) and collectible packaging including wide flaps, emboss, and matte/gloss spots on cover.
• Every year, PBS plays, ¿Alone in the Wilderness¿ the documentary that it inspired. For some, it has become a Thanksgiving tradition much like watching ¿It's a Wonderful Life¿ or ¿A Christmas Story¿ is for many families.
• 50th Anniversary of Dick's journey in building a cabin chronicled by his journals. Book originally published in 1973.
• Dreamers who imagine building their own cabin and living off-the-grid, as well as preppers and survivalists, nature lovers from all walks of life and hardcore hunters and fisherman have all found inspiration in this iconic book.
• Others admire and are inspired by his mission is 'to do a thing to completion' -- finding his account of following his intentions, and doing so with such patience and care, deeply inspiring.
• Each year, thousands pilgrimage to his cabin at Lake Clark in Alaska and museum in Iowa.
• Sam Keith's only daughter, Laurel Keith Lies along with her husband Brian Lies, found the lost manuscript for ¿First Wilderness¿ ten years after her father passed away. It is a precursor in which Sam meets Dick. They remained good friends, trading hundreds of letters over their lifetimes, and died within a month of each other in 2003.
• Makes an excellent gift because its broad and timeless appeal is rooted in ¿that thing¿ that rings true in its pages: "Know what makes you happy and live it."
• Three of Dick¿s journals are published in their entirety, and the fourth will be published in Fall 2018.