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  • The Cabin

    A Search for Personal Sanctuary

    by Hap Wilson ...
    One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes, fast flowing rivers, mystery and adventure. Newcomb befriended the local Aboriginals -- the Deep Water ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hap Wilson's Wilderness 3-Book Bundle

    The Cabin / Grey Owl and Me / Trails and Tribulations

    by Hap Wilson ...
    Noted traveller and environmentalist 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.This three-book bundle includes:The ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trails and Tribulations

    Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder

    by Hap Wilson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grey Owl and Me

    Stories From the Trail and Beyond

    by Hap Wilson ...
    Hap Wilson is back for another journey, this time on the lighter side of the adventure trail, where the bizarre melds with the sublime. Nurtured by the writings of Canadian environmentalist and wannabe-Native, Grey Owl, Wilson adopted a lifestyle similar to the 1930s conservationist but with his own twists and turns along a meandering path full of humorous misadventures. Wilson, too, learned many ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • River of Fire

    Conflict and Survival on the Seal River

    by Hap Wilson ...
    New York’s Men’s Journal Magazine hired a studio photographer from Brooklyn, a post-master/writer from Thermond West Virginia and two Canadian river guides to paddle one of the country’s most dangerous whitewater rivers – the Seal in northern Manitoba, for the purpose of publishing the quintessential Canadian adventure story. Add to this unlikely melange of characters, the possibility of capsizing ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Dance of the Deadmen

    by Hap Wilson ...
    Self-styled arctic outdoorsman, John Hornby had already compromised his abilities to survive in the tundra through several incidents of near starvation, and by injuries suffered as a soldier in World War I. He had openly admitted to peers that “he had had enough of the north and wished he had never come”. Yet, foolishly, he conscripted his young cousin, nineteen year-old Edgar Christian, and a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Once Around Algonquin

    An epic canoe journey

    by Kevin Callan ...
    Kevin Callan’s Once Around Algonquin is an exciting tale of misadventure on the toughest route in Ontario’s most well-loved wilderness. While sharing his love of this paddling paradise, Callan details some of the park's history and evolution, interweaving stories from the voyage. Chuckle along with the tales behind the blisters and bruises in this bromance adventure tale, all told with Callan’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lines on a Map

    Unparalleled Adventures in Modern Exploration

    by Frank Wolf ...
    Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure TravelTwo decades of adventure writing are captured in this entertaining and inspiring collection of travel journalism by renowned adventurer, writer, filmmaker and environmentalist Frank Wolf.Lines on a Map is a compilation of Frank Wolf’s best work from the past two decades. Some of the adventures include: two friends on a cycling ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Dazed but Not Confused

    Tales of a Wilderness Wanderer

    by Kevin Callan ...
    Kevin Callan presents his best adventures -- and misadventures -- in the wilderness. Entertaining, yet enlightening, the stories are full of enthusiasm and are designed to get people to explore the wilderness on their own, and it's hoped, be inspired to protect what's still left.These captured moments of a life spent traveling in secluded areas and promoting their importance to all of us aren't ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska

    True Stories of Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness

    Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska is the story of one woman’s adventures in the remote wilderness of the north. From canoe camping next to unnamed lakes, to kayaking in Alaska’s pristine waters, she describes her many encounters with the bears, moose and other animals that make this wilderness their home. With her partner David she helped to build a cabin on a remote piece of property, off the grid and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wilderness Secrets Revealed

    Adventures of a Survivor

    "Fire! Wake up! The shelter is on fire!"His students affectionately call him "Doc Survival." He's Quebec's Indiana Jones in a forest setting. Searching for the treasures of the wilderness has been his life-long quest; with passion as his only guide, he has dared to penetrate the forest on its own terms, facing increasingly difficult challenges in the hope of becoming nature's confidant, of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Call of the Wilderness

    A Trapper’S Tale

    Dave Vander Meer was just eighteen years old when he set out on his own to explore the northern wilderness of Ontario. Winter would start in just a week, and there was a camp to build, traps to set, and food and furs to collect. To survive, he needed to call upon all his knowledge because the closest point of civilization was more than twenty miles away. Now, years later, he still looks back upon ... Read more

    $5.99 USD