Description
"Jean Aspen helps us believe in the power of our dreams . . . her description of the fragile but magnificent beauty of the Arctic and the life she found there grabs your heart until you start wondering if maybe it's time to leave it all behind and follow your own dreams." Barbara Wieser, coauthor of Rivers Running Free: Stories of Adventurous Women
"Jean Aspen helps us believe in the power of our dreams . . . her description of the fragile but magnificent beauty of the Arctic and the life she found there grabs your heart until you start wondering if maybe it's time to leave it all behind and follow your own dreams." Barbara Wieser, coauthor of Rivers Running Free: Stories of Adventurous Women
Jean Aspen is the oldest daughter of Connie and Bud Helmericks. Her father was legendary as the first arctic bush pilot, big-game guide, and oil company consultant. Connie wrote eight books, including Flight of the Arctic Tern, which is about their Cessna 140 bush plane, and Down the Wild River North, about a canoe journey she took with Jean and her sister in the Canadian arctic in the 1960s. Jean is the author of Arctic Daughter and Arctic Son. She lives in Homer, Alaska, with her husband, Tom Irons, but they spend three months of every year in the Alaskan wilderness.