(author of a Canadian bestselling biography Doctor Olds of Twillingate) For over five years, the author wrote a series of magazine pieces concerning alders, coyotes, shopping malls, the seal hunt, Eaton's catalogue, ice ages, woodstoves, bushplanes, cod liver oil, the sex life of a caplin anything that struck his fancy and about which he knew something worth telling. He also wove in some ecological lessons.
This book is a compilation of the best published essays from that period. City-dwellers will find pleasure in their armchair wanderings with him, and those who live in the country will be reminded why.
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