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books:

A Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller
Chris Czajkowski

Harbour Pub Co, 2008

In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life. "A Mountain Year" is a beautifully produced art book full of original paintings, sketches and diary entries, offering an awe-inspiring glimpse into the life of this independent spirit and the landscape that she calls home. In this illustrated journal, Czajkowski intimately describes the splendour of seasonal ...

Cabin at Singing River: One Woman's Story of Building a Home in the Wilderness
Chris Czajkowski

Raincoast Books, 2008

Diary of a Wilderness Dweller

4 reviews
Chris Czajkowski

Harbour Pub Co, 2006

What a woman!
This woman has done things I have always dreamed of doing - building my own log cabin out in the wilderness. Her descriptions of her life during that time is wonderful and I just wish I could have been there too - to help her and learn from her. I loved the book.

Cabin at Singing River

2 reviews
Chris Czajkowski

Raincoast Books, 2002

An interesting tale of life in the wilderness
This is the story of Chris Czajkowski (pronounced the same as the composer Tchaikovsky). Wanting a quieter life, she leaves Salmon Arm, in British Columbia's Okanagan region. She sets up her new life some 700 miles to the northwest, in the remote Coast Mountains of South Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. Her only neighbors are Jack and Trudy Turner who have a homestead across the river from her. ...

Wildfire in the Wilderness
Chris Czajkowski

Harbour Publishing, 2007

This latest book from Chris Czajkowski's spectacular corner of the world is another engrossing account of life in her wilderness. She regales the reader with stories of shimmering mountain peaks, roaring snow-fed creeks, bears, eagles and monstrous storms; and tales of her dogs--Bucky (short for Buckethead), who chases everything; Max, who tussles with wolves and a porcupine; and Raffi, a large, happy animal who thinks he's a lapdog. The book ...

Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller
Chris Czajkowski

Harbour, 2003

Chris Czajkowski chose to build her life and small ecotourism business on the shore of a high-altitude lake near the southern tip of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. It is a formidable landscape of lake-dotted alpine plateaus abutting the glacier-swathed backbone of the central Coast Range. "Snowshoes and Spotted Dick" describes Czajkowski's experiences as she builds her fourth cabin in the wilderness with hand tools, two chainsaws, an Alaskan Mill ...

Lonesome: Memoirs of a Wilderness Dog

1 review
Chris Czajkowski

Horsdal & Schubart Publishers,, 2004

A wonderful dog stort
I have just finished reading this beautiful book with tears in my eyes. I lived the life of the dog all the way through, perhaps because I had a dog so much like Lonesome, only she was a house dog and spoilt, Some dogs are so intelligent and always faithful. It is a butifully written story, very descriptive and you feel you are there. But I am a wilderness lover despite the fact that I grew up ...