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Inside Passage: Living With Killer Whales, Bald Eagles, and Kwakiutl Indians

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Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Jack London, Michael Modzelewski, jettisoned all baggage accompanying life within the comfortable middle class and got down to find raw, unharnessed wilderness. He found it on Blackfish Sound (“Blackfish” is the Kwakiutl Indian word for the killer whale) within the Inside Passage, the rugged coastline between Seattle and Alaska.

Leaving his home in Aspen, which had turn into a false Shangri-La for him, Modzelewski settled on a desolate island within the Inside Passage, a place which “after seducing you with beauty would shake you with fear. An unpredictable place that kept you at all times prepared, honed to the keen edge of life.” Here he lived on my own for months on end.

Inside Passage describes his experiences on this unspoiled setting, where the sky is his ceiling, mountains are his walls, and physical challenges test him down to the marrow. He also forms atypical friendships with passing yachters, salmon fishermen, Kwakiutl Indians, loners, and the owner of the home he’s staying at, Will Malloff, a man of oversized personality — a healer, builder, woodsman, and thinker. Modzelewski writes with a love for nature and gentle humor about his interactions with the native animals (eagles, whales, wolves), local animals (cats, dogs, “tame” wild boars), and other settlers.

Inside Passage is the powerful story of one man learning the ways of self-reliance in a soul-filled search in the course of the northern wilderness.

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