Download or read book Koviashuvik written by Sam Wright and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a slope above a mountain lake in AlaskaÕs Brooks Range, Sam and Billie Wright built a twelve-by-twelve-foot log cabin with hand tools and named it KoviashuvikÑan Eskimo word meaning "living in the present moment with quiet joy and happiness." SamÕs account of the twenty years they spent there is both a tale of wilderness survival and an inspiring meditation on the natural world and humanityÕs relationship to it.