He protected her in the wilderness, saved her from American bandits and if he was feeling romantic warbled a mountaintop duet with her.
The author of three deceptively slim novels -- Toughboy and Sister" and "Winter Camp" preceding "The Year of Miss Agnes" -- Hill writes survival stories, her setting the Alaskan wilderness and her characters Athabascan Indians.
Also, anti-materialistic and un-LA though she claims to be (she talks a lot about running round in flip-flops in the 500 miles of "wilderness" in her LA desert home and for her recent 40th birthday she went horse-trekking with her second husband Ken through Patagonia), she still insisted on a (very La-La) no-nudity clause in her contract.
One can only imagine the scene of Hagar trudging into the wilderness, holding her only provisions along with her child, a line in the sand growing more faint as she limped toward oblivion.
Worst of times Being molested as a teenager by her stepfather while her mother had breast cancer was undoubtedly her lowest point, but the three years in the wilderness following her decision to come out on TV was also a very bleak period.
Raquel Welch, the voluptuous Indian maiden of "The Legend of Walks Far Woman" (1980), strides through the wilderness in her tight buckskin frock and tosses aside her flowing hair.
The gratifying struggle for Anne LaBastille was how to balance her yearning for the serenity of solitude in the wilderness with her mission to let the world know, as best she could, that it must preserve wilderness.
That was what her big sound was about — a deafening cry in the wilderness of her unconquerable loneliness.
Evidently a cut above her husband, she's trying to recreate England in this wilderness, with her fancy tea service, an imported Christmas tree, and cotton wool to resemble snow.
Her audience may be only the elusive Willie, and his presence is hardly guaranteed, but Winnie behaves as if there's a whole gallery of spectators out there in the empty wilderness, examining her in the way she scrutinizes an ant that wanders her way.
