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Abstract: Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski begins: “It is two days since I left my truck at the end of a logging road twenty miles east of here. I have hiked through untracked forest and over a mountain, through country I have never seen before, to reach a point of land jutting into an un-named lake five thousand feet hight in the Coast Range of British Columbia. And yet, unbelievably, I now have rights, in our civilization’s laws, to adapt this uncompromising pile of boulders and its wind-weary trees to my own ends; I plan to build on it, single-handedly, two cabins, a business, and a life. I must be crazy” Thus wrote Chris Czajkowski as, aged 37 years old, she arrived at an un-named location that she later called Nuk Tessli. This book spans a period of three years where first Chris lived in a tent until she erected the first cabin, finding, falling, peeling and hauling all the logs alone, then moved under the first roof while she completed (more or less) the second. Contact with the outside world was via a long hike in summer and a 4-day snowshoe trip in winter. Crazy or not, Chris made this place work for her, and eventually lived there for 23 years.

Notes: The front inside cover of the book has been annotated by the author. The annotation reads as follows, “To Janet, All my best, Chris Czajkowski”; The abstract has been taken from the official website of the author, the URL can be found below

ISBN: 1551430592

Accession Number: 2019.60

Call Number: 01.4 C11d

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: The URL has been linked to the official website for the author, Chris Czajkowski. Contains information on the book, as well as additional information concerning the authors personal life.; The second URL is linked to the authors official website in which the abstract has been taken from

Websites

http://www.wildernessdweller.ca/

https://www.wildernessdweller.ca/all-book/diary-of-a-wilderness-dweller/

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Our trip around the world

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25248

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Author: Belczyk, Renate

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.

Call Number: 02 B41o

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Author: Belczyk, Renate

Responsibility: Renate Belczyk

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 208 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Travel; Women; Biography

Abstract: A spirited 1950s travelogue that takes the reader around the world during a time when two independent young women travelling alone was considered almost revolutionary. Renate Belczyk was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932. When she was three years old her family moved to Berlin, where they settled into a small apartment building on the outskirts of the city. It was in this building that she met another adventurous girl, Sigrid, with whom she would travel around the world as young women after the Second World War. Having spent most of their childhood and teenage years climbing trees, swimming, cycling, hiking, and adventuring around Germany the two young women attended a talk by the German writer Heinrich Böll. During his presentation the renowned author suggested to the crowd that they all travel to different countries and make friends with the locals whenever they could, as this would help prevent another war. Renate and Sigrid took this advice to heart, and from that point their adventures together took flight. Starting in 1955 and travelling for three years to England, France, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Canada, Japan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Egypt, Turkey, Macedonia, and Greece, their adventures together culminated with their joint return to Germany in 1958. In 1959 Renate returned to the Canadian Rockies to work in the backcountry, and in 1960 she married mountaineer Felix Belczyk and settled in Castlegar, BC, where they raised three children. Our Trip Around the World is an endearing snapshot of the postwar era when adventure travel – mountaineering, hiking, hitchhiking, and cycling – was enticing those with adventurous spirits to experience the world like never before. (From publisher's website)

Contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Early Years -- Chapter 2: Mexico, 1955-56 -- July 1955 -- September 1955 -- October 1955 -- November 1955 -- December 1955 -- January 1956 -- February 1956 -- March 1956 -- April 1956 -- May 1956 -- June-July 1956 -- Chapter 3: Canada, 1956-57 -- July 1956 -- August 1956 -- September 1956 -- Winter 1956-57 -- Spring 1957 -- May 1957 -- Chapter 4: Japan, 1957 -- May to October, 1957 -- June 1957 -- July 1957 -- Photo Section -- September 1957 -- October 1957 -- Chapter 5: India and Nepal, 1957-58 October 1957 -- November 1957 -- December 1957 -- January 1958 -- Chapter 6: Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Home, 1958 -- February 1958 -- March 1958 -- April 1958 -- May 1958 -- Afterword: A Life of Travel

ISBN: 9781771603775

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 02 B41o

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/our-trip-around-the-world/

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