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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Beyond the Northern Lights

A Quest for the Outdoor Life

by (author) W.H. Bell

Publisher
Hancock House
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
Personal Memoirs, Outdoor Skills
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888394323
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $23.95

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Beyond the Northern Lights is a story about the attractions of an outdoor life and how they formed the driving force for my youthful ambitions, culminating in a career as a guardian of the forests and its animal inhabitants. It is also a tribute to things that no longer exist except in my memory - the Calgary of my youth and a simpler, more innocent time. I know there are many people who would be delighted to engage in pursuits similar to those I describe - traveling secluded byways far from the stress of urban overcrowding, coping with climate at a primordial level, confronting nature in the raw - but who can only partake of such experiences vicariously through the medium of the printed word. I hope they will find pleasure in these pages. The events related here are based on personal experience. The participants are real people, identified by their actual names when they could be dredged form my memory, although I have twice deliberately neglected to provide surnames to avoid causing anguish or embarrassment to the persons involved or their families.

About the author

Born in Alberta, W. H. (Bill) Bell has had a lifetime interest in the outdoors, as is evidenced by the passion with which he relates his time spent living with nature. By sharing his adventures in various vocations (and avocations), Mr. Bell hopes to transfer to readers his delight with the outdoor life.

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