Three Against the Wilderness: A Gripping Memoir of a Pioneering Family in the Chilcotin - A Classic (Classics West) - Softcover

Eric Collier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894898540 ISBN 13: 9781894898546

Publisher: Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA), 2007

Synopsis

Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made for an international bestseller and one of the most famous books ever written about British Columbia. In the early 1930s, Collier and his family moved to Meldrum Creek, where the couple built their own log house and learned to live off the land. Fulfilling a promise to Lillian's grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area she knew as a child before the White man came, Collier was instrumental in the species' survival. Collier's timeless tales about roughing it in the bush and the resourcefulness inspired by this lifestyle's challenges will engage readers young and old.

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Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made for an international best-seller and one of the most famous books ever written about British Columbia. In the early 1930s, Collier and his family moved to Meldrum Creek, where the couple built their own log house and learned to live off the land. Fulfilling a promise to Lillian's grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area she knew as a child before the White man came, Collier was instrumental in the species' survival. Collier's timeless tales about roughing it in the bush and the resourcefulness inspired by this lifestyle's challenges will engage readers young and old.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1894898540
• ISBN 13: 9781894898546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320