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Diary of a wilderness dweller

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Czajkowski, Chris
Publisher
Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers
Call Number
01.4 C11d
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Author
Czajkowski, Chris
Responsibility
Chris Czajkowski
Publisher
Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers
Physical Description
x, 209 p. : ill., map, port. ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wilderness areas
Pioneer life
British Columbia
Coast Mountains
Dairies
Biography
Natural history
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
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