<div><div> <div> The chronicle of a family’s first year alone in Alaskan wilderness, <I>Arctic Son </I>is a poetic journey of discovery into what we value in life.</div> <br> In 1992 Jean Aspen and her husband, Tom, left Arizona and took their young son to live in Alaska's interior wilderness, building a cabin out of logs, hunting for food, and letting the vast, harsh beauty of the Arctic close in around them. While Jean had faced Alaska's wilderness before in a life-altering experience she described in <I>Arctic Daughter</I>. This journey would be different. Dogged by sickness and hardships, cut off from the rest of the world, her family faced not only a test of endurance, but of its own well-being and survival.<BR> <br> From a daily struggle against the elements to an encounter with a grizzly bear at arm's length, from moments of breathtaking beauty and self-realization to a harrowing, six-hundred-mile river passage back to civilization, <I>Arctic Son </I>chronicles fourteen remarkable months in the Alaskan wilderness. At once a portrait of courage and a heart-pounding adventure story, <I>Arctic Son </I>portrays a family's extraordinary journey into America's last frontier.</div></div>