Alone in the Wilderness “Alone in the Wilderness” is the story of Dick Proenneke. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man… to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed… to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin… to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available… to be not at odds with the world, but content with one’s own thoughts and company… Thousands have had such dreams, but Dick Proenneke lived them. He found a place, built a cabin, and stayed to become part of the country. This video “Alone in the Wilderness” is a simple account of the day-to-day explorations and activities he carried out alone, and the constant chain of nature’s events that kept him company.
Customer Review: Strange, inspiring
This film is technically excellent, but there is an old timey “feel” to it, reminding me of “educational” films (narrated by the incomparable Alexander Scorby) I saw as a boy sitting in darkened grade-school classrooms, while other kids passed notes and whispered and giggled.

The narrator of Alone in the Wilderness, Bob Swerer, is also incomparable, and for me makes the film more than the sum of its parts. Swerer’s hauntingly intimate and intelligently hokey voice is in the first person, the script taken from the journals of Dick Proenneke. Once you hear Swerer’s voice you can’t get it out of your head.

“Survivalists” would be more interested in the hunting, fishing, and canoeing aspects of Proenneke’s 24 year adventure, and the lake itself looms large, but the film is most profoundly a lesson in Proenneke’s extraordinary woodworking using simple hand tools. You are taken step by step, though not painstakingly, through the construction of the cabin. These are not primitive, “heritage” tools–Proenneke lacks no kind of saw, for example. The “stars” of This Old House might take note of the degree of fit and finish Proenneke brings to his little cabin and hearth–nothing less than amazing. A brief shot of meat frying in a pan, and an array of condiments, shows that Proenneke, thanks to the seaplane visting every so often, did not lack certain amenities of civilization, such as Tabasco sauce.

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