| Diary of a Wilderness Dweller Contributor(s): Czajkowski, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 155017357X ISBN-13: 9781550173574 Publisher: Harbour Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Nature | Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 209 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 28268 Reading Level: 7.2 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Czajkowski, Chris: - Chris Czajkowski was born and raised in the north of England. She lived and worked in Uganda, New Zealand, the South Pacific and South America before settling in the remote reaches of British Columbia's Coast Range mountains, 480 kilometres north of Vancouver, where she created the Nuk Tessli Alpine Experience, an ecotourism business catering to hikers and naturalists. 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 Dweller's Dream. |