Book description
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.
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.
