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2010
| A memoir of Jeffries Wyman—groundbreaking scientist, Boston Brahmin, adventurer, diplomat, artist, and eccentric—by his daughter Anne. After the death of his first wife, Wyman travelled the world, leaving his two children with relatives. But he sent them a stream of brilliant letters chronicling his travels and his friendships with everyone from Alaskan Eskimos to luminaries such as J. Robert Oppenheimer. A frank, loving portrait of a man who led an uncommonly tumultuous life. |
2010
| Continuing his self-imposed absentee fatherhood following the death of his wife, Jeffries Wyman headed north. Alaska Journal chronicles his time spent living with Inuits in 1951, in Alaskan territory where few white men ventured. Following the same approach he adopted in Japan, Wyman lived as one of the Eskimo people, adopting their way of life by living in an igloo, eating an all-meat diet, hunting caribou, and fishing. His private diary shows day-to-day life and his vivid watercolor paintings ....[more] |
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