Overview

In an age when ""survival"" shows permeate the media, noted northern traveller Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from firsthand experience that nature can neither be beaten or tamed. Trails and Tribulations takes the reader on a journey with the author through natural settings ranging from austere to mysterious and breathtaking. Contents include animal attacks, bush fires, the threat of hypothermia, and vision-quest sites, to name but a few.

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A recipient of the Bill Mason Award for life-long achievement in river conservation, (Hap Wilson) has written an impassioned and detailed account of a life led in a canoe-a bonus for everyone who loves the Canadian wilderness, canoeists and armchair voyageurs alike. -- The Sun Times (Owen Sound, ON: circ: 15,000) May 20, 2009 Thank you, Michael Blair, and your Tom McCall, a laid-back West coast photographer who regularly gets wound up in more trouble than film...a good story and well written. -- Star Phoenix An original tale with a rich cast of characters and a convincing sense of place, it will make you want to read the others in the series. -- The Record

Author Information

Hap Wilson has paddled over 50,000 km from coast-to-coast and is the recipient of the Bill Mason Award. He is the author of numerous books including Canoeing, Kayaking and Hiking Temagami. During the making of the Attenborough movie ""Grey Owl,"" Wilson worked as actor Pierce Brosnan's personal outdoors-skills trainer. He lives in Rosseau, Ontario.

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