Woman of the Boundary Waters (Canoeing, Guiding, mushing and Surviving)

Justine Kerfoot with a Foreword By Les Blacklock

ISBN 10: 0910259038 / ISBN 13: 9780910259033

Published by Women's Times Publishing, Grand Marais, Minnesota, 1988

About this Item

This is a nonfiction autobiography about wilderness life called Woman of the Boundary Waters, Canoeing, Guiding, Mushing and Surviving, copyright 1988, fourth printing, hard cover, dust jacket written and signed by author Justine Kerfoot, with a foreword by Les Blacklock. The book and its dust jacket are in good plus condition with new mylar on jacket, tight binding and 200 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 003488

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Woman of the Boundary Waters (Canoeing, Guiding, mushing and Surviving)
• Publisher: Women's Times Publishing, Grand Marais, Minnesota
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0910259038
• ISBN 13: 9780910259033
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Good Plus Condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Book by Justine Kerfoot, Les Blacklock

From the Back Cover

The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. In 1928, Justine Kerfoot arrived, a Northwestern University graduate headed for medical school until her family lost both their Illinois homes in the stock market crash. Thrust into year-round life at her mother's fledgling summer resort, Justine was confronted with learning survival in the frigid north woods, a challenge she met with extraordinary verve and recounts with great candor and humor in this remarkable book. Kerfoot has paddled all the lakes and streams in this border country, and she knows them well. Her lyrical descriptions of wildlife and seasonal environments express the deep reverence for nature that has become her way of life. In a new afterword, she reflects on the impact of restricted wilderness status on the region - called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since 1978 - and on her own convictions about people living in the wild.