Diary of a Wilderness Dweller
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155017357X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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What a woman! This woman has done things I have always dreamed of doing - building my own log cabin out in the wilderness. Her descriptions of her life during that time is wonderful and I just wish I could have been there too - to help her and learn from her. I loved the book.. Zinta Aistars said Embracing the wild, leaving the isolation of city life behind. When people read and heard about what Chris Czajkowski, a woman in her early Embracing the wild, leaving the isolation of city life behind Zinta Aistars When people read and heard about what Chris Czajkowski, a woman in her early 40s, had achieved in the wilderness, they exclaimed: How brave! How courageous! Ridiculous, Czajkowski would respond. To her understanding, she had achieved nothing more than many of us might, had we the mind to do so. "Skills will always find a way of arriving, it is the attitude that is important," she writes in Diary of a Wilderness Dweller. "If you think you can do something, it will happen." (Page 17. 0s, had achieved in the wilderness, they exclaimed: How brave! How courageous! Ridiculous, Czajkowski would respond. To her understanding, she had achieved nothing more than many of us might, had we the mind to do so. "Skills will always find a way of arriving, it is the attitude that is important," she writes in Diary of a Wilderness Dweller. "If you think you can do something, it will happen." (Page 17. C. Hill said A fascinating wilderness diary. In Chris Czajkowski's first book, Cabin at Singing River, she wrote about building a cabin and living the wilderness life in British Columbia. In this book, she moves away from her first cabin in southern Tweedsmuir Park and sets up camp on the shores of a high-elevation lake, about a day's walk east from her old location.This book is written in the form of a diary, covering the period from June 1988 to July 1990. She writes about the mounds of paperwork and red tape she must get
In the late 1980s, Chris Czajkowski left her truck at the end of a logging road 300 kilometres north of Vancouver and hiked for two days on unmarked wilderness trails to the site of what would become her home. This is her account of building three log cabins, an eco-tourism business and a life beside an unnamed lake 5,000 feet high in the Coast Range mountains. This new trade paper edition of Diary of a Wilderness Dweller shares Czajkowski's adventures from the beginning as she wields chainsaw and axe to forge a different kind of life.
She has written ten books about her nearly thirty years of wilderness living, including Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller, A Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller, A Wilderness Dweller's Cookbook: The Best Bread in the World and Other Recipes and most recently, Ginty's Ghost: A Wilderness Dwell
"Czajkowski has nurtured and developed a connection to the earth that most of us can hardly relate to, let alone appreciate She has followed a different path, reminding us of how much we don't need, and how much we are missing."--The Globe & Mail"As western society becomes increasingly reliant on technology and marches further from its roots, Czajkowski's books allow us to share a rare, lingering glimpse of frontier life."--Vancouver Sun"Chris transports the reader into the trackless expanse that is her neighbourhood, opening a truly experiential window into the world of those who live alone, far from the concrete canyons that many of us call home."--bcbooks