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"The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska by Melissa L. Cook" is Melissa L. Cook's highest-rated book on LuvemBooks, with a reader rating of 4.5/5.

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We have reviewed 1 book by Melissa L. Cook.

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Melissa L. Cook's books span genres including Biography & Memoir.

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Melissa L. Cook

Award-winning author Melissa L. Cook grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and Tucson, Arizona, before moving to Burlington, Wyoming, where she married Elgin Cook. Together they raised three boys in bush Alaska while working as teachers. In 1995, she and her family spent two years in the isolated Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon on the Bering Sea, later settling in the Tongass National Forest on Prince of Wales Island.

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The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska by Melissa L. Cook

4.5/5

Melissa L. Cook's memoir chronicles the twenty years she and her family spent living and teaching in Alaska's remote bush communities, beginning in 1995 — a candid account of wilderness adventure, personal adversity including multiple sclerosis, and the singular demands of life far beyond the reach of ordinary conveniences.

Reviewed Mar 25, 2026

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