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Victor Carl Friesen

Author (and painter) Victor Carl Friesen remains ever a “farmboy,” although he now, with his wife, Dorothy, lives in the town of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, but five miles from the quarter-section on which he was born. He holds MA and PhD degrees from the universities of Saskatchewan and Alberta respectively. Both his master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation focused on Henry David Thoreau, a foremost nature writer, and resulted in two books: The Spirit of the Huckleberry, a literary analysis of Thoreau’s work, and The Year Is a Circle, poems and photographs celebrating the American writer. Friesen has published nine other books and has won the Alberta Book of the Year Award and the Pfeiffer Award for academic research and writing. In addition, Friesen has authored some three hundred journal articles.

Books by Victor Carl Friesen

Sauntering, Thoreau-style

A Daily Adventure

illustrated by Victor Carl Friesen

The Steeps of Time

Poems & Paintings

illustrated by Victor Carl Friesen

The Gift of Country Life

by (author) Victor Carl Friesen

Forever Home

Good Old Days on the Farm

by (author) Victor Carl Friesen
illustrated by Cheryl Peddie
foreword by Trevor Herriot

The Year Is a Circle

A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau

by (author) Victor Carl Friesen

Where the River Runs

Stories of the Saskatchewan and the People Drawn to Its Shores

by (author) Victor Carl Friesen

The Spirit of the Huckleberry

Sensuousness in Henry Thoreau

by (author) Victor Carl Friesen