Herb Rhodes

Hungry for Wood Herb Rhodes 1st edition

'Hungry for Wood' derives its title from an Indian translation of the author's hometown of Hoquiam (Washington), a hamlet bordering the big tree country of the Olympic peninsula while being washed by the Pacific Ocean to the westward. Perhaps the story is both a romance of the sea and an epic that coincides with Tom Brokaw's 'The Greatest Generation,' middle Americans, surviving the Depression, going off to win World War II and coming home, rolling up their sleeves and building the greatest nation in the world. Beyond the horizon of Hoquiam lurked a foreboding, militant empire of Japan that poised in 1941 an ominous invasion threat to the writer's homeland. Japanese bullets ultimately would strike down both the author and his father. Adventure anew came with the writer going to Alaska after the war, meeting newspaper investigative reporting challenges and recording exciting wildlife encounters with wolves, moose, bear, and even a friendly seagull across Cook Inlet from Anchorage at Pt. MacKenzie. And of course, then there was Mac, a yellow dog of the North.