Trails and Tribulations

Submitted by dmacdonell on Sun, 2009-10-04 14:59

Trails and Tribulations

Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder

By Hap Wilson; Illustrated by Ingrid Zschogner

978-1-55488-397-4
April 2009
216pp, Paperback
$26.99 CAD

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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.