Herb Etheridge

Once More the Wind Herb Etheridge

In 1979 I set out to find if any place left on Earth that could compare to the early days of my youth on the wind-swept, desolate Outer Banks of North Carolina. I was looking for the simple honest lifestyle of the hunter, trapper, or fisherman, people who have become known as "Perimeter Men", people that prefer to and live on the edge away from the luxuries of civilization. I wanted to find those who had not yet lost the values of the Golden Rule. I chose the people of the far north coast of British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon Territory to begin my search. This I reasoned, was where there are still remote little villages, tucked back in the wilderness, that might have been saved from progresses, and that still lived with the values I hoped to find. ONCE MORE THE WIND is the story of that odyssey. It takes the reader from the wrecks of old sailing ships that were my playhouses on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and the seafaring folks that lived there to the vast, green wilderness of the Far North. It covers my travel in a small sailing sloop, with a young college man, up the storm tossed coast of British Columbia, into Alaska and a 500 mile drift down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson. It tells of the return of the gold prospector at a time when gold prices had reached the highest prices in history, $800 an once. It depicts the way America used to be. We traveled through historic pioneer villages frozen in time. Have you ever wondered what's out there where the roads do not go. ONCE MORE THE WIND will thrill those that missed the great adventure of discovering the land when it was new.