Background
Lynn Schooler was born in 1954 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska.
Lynn Schooler
Lynn Schooler
Lynn Schooler
(With a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories ...)
With a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories of the brutal death of a woman he loved, Lynn Schooler kept the world at arm's length, drifting through the wilds of Alaska as a commercial fisherman, outdoorsman, and wilderness guide. In 1990, Schooler met Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino, and began a profound friendship cemented by a shared love of adventure and a passionate quest to find the elusive glacier bear, an exceedingly rare creature, seldom seen and shrouded in legend. But only after Hoshino's tragic death from a bear attack does Schooler succeed in photographing the animal - completing a remarkable journey that ultimately brings new meaning to his life. The Blue Bear is an unforgettable book. Set amid the wild archipelagoes, deep glittering fjords, and dense primordial forests of Alaska's Glacier Coast, it is rich with the lyric sensibility and stunning prose of such nature classics as Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams and Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard.
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Bear-Friendship-Discovery-Alaskan/dp/0060935731/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Blue+Bear%3A+A+True+Story+of+Friendship.+Tragedy%2C+and+Survival+in+the+Alaskan+Wilderness&qid=1608277863&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(In the autumn of 1864, at the height of the American Civi...)
In the autumn of 1864, at the height of the American Civil War, the Confederate raider Shenandoah received orders to "seek out and utterly destroy" the whaling fleets of New England as part of an effort to bleed the Union of its economic strength - an undertaking that met its greatest success when the raider fell upon a fleet of whalers working the waters near Alaska's Little Diomede Island and sank more than two dozen ships in a frenzy of destruction.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Shot-Incredible-Shenandoah-Conclusion/dp/0060523336/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Last+Shot%3A+The+Incredible+Story+of+the+C.S.S.+Shenandoah&qid=1608278453&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(A powerful literary debut inspired by a true story. In 18...)
A powerful literary debut inspired by a true story. In 1898, Alaska is an untamed wilderness with an unforgiving climate. At the tail end of a world-wide depression, thousands of destitute people are drawn north by rumors of easy wealth coming out of the remote claims of the Gold Rush. Many of the pilgrims are unprepared for the hardships that await them and find nothing but a desolate landscape already pillaged of its riches by those who came before. Hannah Nelson, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is one of the late arrivals. After following her husband to a glacier-wracked fjord in the company of three equally desperate men, she discovers that gold is only one of the desires that can consume a person's soul...
https://www.amazon.com/Heartbroke-Bay-Lynn-Durso-ebook/dp/B00452V3QO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Heartbroke+Bay&qid=1608278939&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
(In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst win...)
In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness - and a sense of humanity - in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape - tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travelers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others.
https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Home-Journey-Alaskan-Wilderness/dp/1408817705/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Walking+Home%3A+A+Journey+in+the+Alaskan+Wilderness&qid=1608279214&s=books&sr=1-2
2010
Lynn Schooler was born in 1954 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska.
There is no information, where Lynn Schooler received his education.
Wilderness guide and explorer Lynn Schooler has lived in Alaska for most of his life. The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness (2002) is a memoir that reaches back to Schooler’s teen years when he strapped on a steel brace to correct scoliosis that was turning him into a hunchback. It was removed two years later, but Schooler was by that time very shy, a loner who didn’t mix well with people. He suffered many other tragedies in addition to his struggle with his physical affliction. A girl he cared for disappeared and was assumed to be a victim of Robert Hansen, who raped and killed dozens of women in Alaska during the 1970s and 1980s. Schooler writes of his other losses - his father to cancer and the loss of Michio Hoshino, a friend who changed Schooler’s outlook forever, to a Russian grizzly.
Hoshino was a Japanese photographer who came to Schooler in 1990, asking him to guide him through Southeast Alaska in search of the rare glacier bear. This particular animal, a subspecies of black bear, appears to be blue in the right light, and very few had been photographed. According to Schooler, fewer than one hundred exist, and only within the 500-mile stretch of coast between Prince William Sound and Ketchikan. The men spent several seasons together, observing and photographing the landscape, birds, animals, and sea creatures of Alaska, learning from each other, and for Schooler, developing trust in the man with whom he developed a deep friendship. Schooler writes of their major encounters, such as with great schools of humpback whales, but also offers the reader the minutiae that evokes Alaska, the blue of the glaciers, which he explains, and the cycles of nature. Schooler has included a number of his Alaska photographs.
His other books include The Last Shot (2005), Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart (2010). His first novel, Heartbroke Bay, published under the pseudonym Lynn D’Urso in 2010.
(In the autumn of 1864, at the height of the American Civi...)
2005(With a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories ...)
2002(In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst win...)
2010(A powerful literary debut inspired by a true story. In 18...)
2010Lynn Schooler donated the prize money from Thirty Million Friends to the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council.