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Life Jacket High quality books Life Jacket By:Biz Robbins Published on 2014 by |What else could she say? When Biz Robbins's husband of three years said, |I'm movingto Alaska. Do you want to come with me?| she hesitated only briefly and then answered yes. As recounted in Life Jacket: A Memoir of a Float Camp Teacher, Biz and Don's move from a happy, comfortable life in Colorado Springs to Alaska called for major adjustments. They eventually found teaching jobs in logging camps in Ketchikan's outlying bush areas, where conditions were often challenging. In the floating logging camps, children who had not passed the swimming test had to wear life jackets whenever they left home. Snow had to be shoveled off the floats to keep them level and safely above water. Purchasing food--or anything else--required a major expedition to town via watercraft, floatplane, or rugged land vehicle. Yet Don loved the adventure, especially the water activities--boating, jet skiing, fishing--an...