Arctic Homestead Audiobook By Norma Cobb, Charles W. Sasser cover art

Arctic Homestead

The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

Preview
Try for $0.00
Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
Audible Plus auto-renews for $7.95/mo after 30 days. Upgrade or cancel anytime.

Arctic Homestead

By: Norma Cobb, Charles W. Sasser
Narrated by: Emily Beresford
Try for $0.00

$7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.19

Buy for $17.19

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and their five children pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fairbanks near the Arctic Circle where grizzlies outnumbered humans 20 to one.

In addition to fierce winters and predatory animals, the Alaskan frontier drew the more unsavory elements of society's fringes. From the beginning, the Cobbs found themselves pitted in a life or death feud with unscrupulous neighbors who would rob from new settlers, attempt to burn them out, shoot them, and jump their claim.

The Cobbs were chechakos, tenderfeet, in a lost land that consumed even toughened settlers. Everything, including their "civilized" past, conspired to defeat them. They constructed a cabin and the first snow collapsed the roof. They built too close to the creek and spring breakup threatened to flood them out. Bears prowled the nearby woods, stalking the children, and Lester Cobb would leave for months at a time in search of work. But through it all, they survived on the strength of Norma Cobb - a woman whose love for her family knew no bounds and whose courage in the face of mortal danger is an inspiration to us all. Arctic Homestead is her story.

©2000 Norma Cobb and Charles Sasser (P)2018 Tantor
Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Alaska Homesteading Travel Memoir True Adventure
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_webcro805_stickypopup

What listeners say about Arctic Homestead

Highly rated for:

Gripping Adventure Story Compelling Family Journey Gripping Narration Detailed Wilderness Struggles
Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    206
  • 4 Stars
    53
  • 3 Stars
    25
  • 2 Stars
    7
  • 1 Stars
    8
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    157
  • 4 Stars
    57
  • 3 Stars
    27
  • 2 Stars
    16
  • 1 Stars
    16
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    193
  • 4 Stars
    46
  • 3 Stars
    16
  • 2 Stars
    6
  • 1 Stars
    8

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Narration was hard to take

The story was good and worthy, but would have been far better reading it than listening to it. There was so much emphatic drama on almost every word and I kept thinking how it was way too much. There was a lot of events happening continuously, but I can’t imagine the author putting that kind of drama into each sentence.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Good book highly recommend it .

I loved the story all the details of life in the wild Alaska the families struggles and strengths. Narration could of been better but you did get use to it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great story! If you love the outdoors and adventure, you’re in for a treat.

This story was terrific. If you’re into all the outdoorsy, wilderness adventure stuff, hunting, survival, overcoming adversity, this will be great for you!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Good story, reading performance could be better

Great story about the last pioneer woman in Alaska, wish the reading performance was better.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Enjoyable Story

Some Alaska facts are exaggerated and distorted, but I like the basic message of belief in God and hard work.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Fascinating read

Great detailed story, of the will to live as you wish
Hard to put down

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

An excellent read for somebody who has spent a couple of years in the area.

Excellent audiobook to listen to while you’re on a boring drive. Due to the fact that I was stationed at Fort Waynewright and pretty much had driven the entire road system, including a trek up to Manley Hot Springs on roads that don’t appear to have been improved since Tubulcane walk the Earth, and was therefore somewhat familiar with the physical territory, they were operating in which when I first experienced it in the early 2000s was probably a lot superior to the way they found it in the early 70s., added to my enjoyment of the book immensely. An excellent story, a great way for kids to grow up even when you count for the grease fires, gunshot wounds and bear attack. Not to mention a few Bigfoot sightings. The critique I have of the author is that I think she’s a little too hard on modern American men, not that she’s wrong, but you do understand you’re married to a superhuman dude right.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Good story about real Alaskan pioneers

Good story about real Alaskan pioneers, how much effort they needed to survive in wilderness, and finally to get successful in gold mining.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great story

What a great story about something I always wanted to do. Excellent detail. Thank you for the intriguing story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great Story

Loved the story. Only think I didn't like was the last 5 minutes where she talks about how everyone raises their kids wrong because they aren't raised like she raised hers.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!