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In June 2007, Erin McKittrick and her husband set out from their Seattle home on a multi-sport expedition to the Aleutian Islands—via foot, skis, and packraft.   Here McKittrick chronicles the 13-month journey that led them across difficult ocean crossings, through incessant storms, and into the path of unruly bears.  What began as a trek to raise awareness about climate issues, from unsustainable logging and mining in sensitive wilderness areas, became an awe-inspiring life adjustment.  From the developed urbanization of Seattle to the “last wild frontier” of Alaskan wilderness, A Long Trek Home takes readers from what we know as civilization to another way of life, and a new way of thinking about our role on the planet.   Erin McKittrick had already logged more than 3,000 miles through Alaska’s untracked wilderness, before embarking on her 4,000-mile trek from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands.  She received an MS in Molecular Biology from UW, but left academia to concentrate on environmental activism.  She runs the environmental non-profit Ground Truth Trekking from her yurt in Seldovia, Alaska, where she lives with her husband and son.