HOUSEBOAT CHRONICLES: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
Language: English
Published by McClelland &Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, 2002
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.Falls Bookstore
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Grey colored binding with silver print on spine. Tihjt sound and unmarked. 291 pages. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.
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- Title
- HOUSEBOAT CHRONICLES: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
- Author
- MACDONALD, Jake
- Publisher
- McClelland &Stewart Ltd., Toronto, Ontario
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0771054033
- ISBN 13
- 9780771054037
- Edition
- First Printing
- Dimensions
- 6 3/8 X 9 1/4
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Nature, Travel
First he worked as a guide, then as an odd-job person, and ultimately, as a kind of hunter-gatherer of stories. He met Inuit hunters who had been mauled by polar bears and Native trappers who walked routinely across thousands of miles of roadless wilderness. He came to know the cops, the tourists, and the Native people. He made friends with the hardy individuals who made a life for themselves in the wilderness: a German soldier imprisoned in northern Ontario in the Second World War who fell in love with the land; a guide who built an extraordinary houseboat out of exotic wood; and a bachelor known as the Prince who lived in a trailer behind a town’s community centre. In telling their stories, Jake MacDonald tells us something about the Shield Country, and something about ourselves.
MacDonald argues that the heart and soul of Canada are to be found in Shield country. On its countless cold lakes, under its impossibly starry skies, we come to know ourselves. Its vastness and indifference show us our limitations and help to define us. This exploration of Shield country is, finally, an exploration of Canada itself.
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