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Finlay's River

by (author) R.M. Patterson

Publisher
TouchWood Editions
Initial publish date
Apr 2006
Category
General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894898386
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926971155
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $14.99

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Adventures on wild waters

 

In Finlay's River, R. M. Patterson, whose style was described by noted author Bruce Hutchison as a a mixture between Thoreau and Jack London, tells the story of his 1949 trip up this wild river in remote northern British Columbia. Patterson uses his own journey as a framework to recount the adventures of explorers who went there before. All had struggled up the Finlay for different reasons, and all left spirited accounts of that challenging, doomed river, which Patterson brings to vivid life again.

 

Much of the Finlay, a river of whitewater rapids that flowed through a magnificent country of dense forests and high mountains, disappeared forever under the waters of Williston Lake with the completion of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam in 1968. In this engaging book, Patterson preserves the memory of this wilderness and the long-gone adventurers who first told the world about its existence.

About the author

R.M. Patterson (1898-1984) moved to Canada when he realized that working in a London bank would never bring him happiness. He spent the remaining years of his life pursuing adventure in the Canadian West and was a delightfully evocative writer and an intrepid explorer. Authoring a total of five books about his excursions into the Canadian wilderness and his life on a southern Alberta ranch, Raymond Murray Patterson earned himself legions of fans and made Canada's wilderness famous. TouchWood Editions is proud to be keeping his works in print.

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Far Pastures: 978-1-894898-15-7 / $19.95 pb

Finlay's River: 978-1-894898-38-6 / $19.95 pb

Those Earlier Hills : 978-1-894898-67-6 / $24.95 cl

Trail to the Interior: 978-1-894898-50-8 / $19.95 pb

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