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In the summer of 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines in British Columbia. As a low pressure weather system continued start new fires, strong winds fanned the existing ones. Czajkowski's is an exciting eyewitness chronicle of a summer in wildfire country..

Taking up where Lonesome, the first bestselling wilderness dog, left off, here is another wilderness memoir from the perspective of Chris Czajkowski's canine companions. Living alone in the remote wilderness, Chris Czajkowski has given her dogs a rich life, although not without its difficulties. Often residing in areas accessible only by float plane, the dogs have encountered grizzlies and cougars, slept in the snow, hiked with packs of food a...

Best-selling author Chris Czajkowski returns with more revelations of life in the far reaches of the Chilcotin. After nearly three decades of wilderness dwelling far from neighbours and roads, with the nearest community accessible only via float plane or days of hiking, Czajkowski purchases a derelict homestead with rough road access at Ginty Creek, an hours drive south of Anahim Lake. Although the property is mostly swamp and the packrat-infe...

Czajkowski became well known to Canadians through her correspondence with Peter Gzowski on CBC's "Morningside", where she described her initial foray into the wilderness near Lonesome Lake. This work describes visitors to her world - filmmakers, media people, and paying guests - and a technician, who flew in to connect her cabin to the Internet.

How does one go from English villager to wilderness dweller? Chris Czajkowski was born and raised at the edge of a large village in England, until she abandoned the company of others to roam the countryside in search of the natural world. As a young adult she studied dairy farming and travelled to Uganda to teach at a farm school. Returning to England she found nothing to hold her interest, so in 1971 she hitchhiked around the world spending a...

Chris Czajkowski came to Canada's attention in the mid-1980s when she began writing to CBC Radio's Morningside about a particularly unusual adventure: in her late thirties, she headed into the pristine wilderness of British Columbia's Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. There, she single-handedly cleared the land and - despite a total lack of experience in construction - built her own house.More than simply a lyrical celebration of the natural world, ...

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 <, I>, Diary of a Wilderness Dweller<, /I>...

An illustrated, expessive journal of seasonal transformation and wilderness living as experienced by a best-selling author.

One of Chris Czajkowskis first priorities when she arrived at Nuk Tessli, a remote location in BCs Coast Mountains, was to devise a way to bake bread. At first, she lived in a tent and her oven was a simple pile of rocks with a hole in the middle. But as she built her wilderness cabins and started providing for the clients of her wilderness adventure business, she perfected her stone oven and her recipesand word began to spread of Nuk Tessli a...

The spellbinding and uplifting story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness.