Review:
Raffan's done it, and done it beautifully... A beautifully done scrapbook of a trip we might all envy but few will ever be able to do... impressive and memorable.--Linda Turk "Thunder Bay Chronicle-Herald " Gorgeously illustrated book celebrates those adventures and the largest single ecosystem in North America... a fuller sense of what it's like to experience the boreal forest.-- (05/01/2005) Collection of fascinating and compelling material.--Wave Length Magazine (12/01/2004) If the boreal forest as a whole had a voice, this glorious book would be it... This book is intended to stir up protective feelings for one of the Earth's last frontiers.-- (12/12/2004) So deliciously readable... 160 color and 40 black and white images, each one more stunning than the last.-- (11/20/2004) This is an inspiring and beautifully illustrated tribute to a vast, magnificent ecosystem.--Globe and Mail (12/04/2004) One of the most remarkable and beautiful books about Canada's wilderness areas to ever have been created... stunning photographs, sketches and paintings, journal entries, humorous dialogues, and even the words and music for a song.-- (02/20/2005)
About the Author:
James Raffan is a well-known canoeist and outdoor educator. He is the author of ten previous books, including Bark, Skin and Cedar, Wildwaters: Canoeing North America's Wilderness Rivers and the Bill Mason biography Fire in the Bones, and has contributed to a dozen other books. His thirty-five major expeditions have taken him by canoe, kayak, bicycle, dog sled, icebreaker, snowshoe and on foot to every part of Canada.
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