Babe in the Woods: Building a Life One Log at a Time

by Yvonne Wakefield

Overview

AT AGE EIGHTEEN, IN 1974, Yvonne Pepin set out to build a home from trees on eighty acres she bought on an Oregon mountainside. Log by log the following year she created a cabin and healed from her orphaned past, finding a new family in the forest and with people in a valley named John Day.

This true story of one woman's survival in the wilderness puts an honest and gritty face on the fantasy of living alone in the forest. Readers of My Side of the Mountain and Into the Wild-and fans of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Walden alike-will eagerly follow along on Yvonne's journey in this candid, revealing account.

Babe in the Woods: Building a Life One Log at a Time includes Yvonne's original artwork and ledgers, further authenticating the construction of her three-story log cabin, built by hand from trees on land Yvonne still owns today. It is the first in a three-book series about Yvonne's time living in this log cabin beside a mountain stream-and it is a story of her relationship with woodsy things in a place of risk and isolation but also peace, quiet beauty, and repose.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737459101
Publisher:	Pepin Enterprises
Publication date:	07/27/2021
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Yvonne Wakefield, who also goes by Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield, is an artist and the author of Suitcase Filled with Nails: Lessons Learned from Teaching Art in Kuwait (Boldface Books, 2016). She also holds a doctorate in Human Organizational Systems, although this has nothing to do with building a log cabin.

The mountainside and log cabin are still much the same as Yvonne describes, although over time the outer walls have lost their luster and the author also shows evidence of weathering. Babe in the Woods: Building a Life One Log at a Time is the first in a three-book series about Yvonne's time living in this log cabin beside a mountain stream.

Images from this book and examples of Yvonne's art can be viewed on her websites:
www.yvonnepepinwakefield.com www.babeandthewoods.com