Product Description
This provocative and illuminating collection of essays presents the most exciting contemporary voices in Canadian nature writing, including some of Canada's best-known and most distinguished nature writers as well as the most promising new talents. From British Columbia's ancient rain forests to the Miramichi River in New Brunswick to the vast expanses of the North, the relationship between people and wild places is explored with passion, wisdom, humour, reverence and a naturalist's eye for detail.
Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
About the Author
David R. Boyd is a leading environmental lawyer who has advised the governments of Sweden and Canada. His books include Sustainability Within a Generation: A New Vision for Canada as well as Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy and Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing, both Canadian Geographic Books of the Year. Boyd lives, lightly, on Pender Island in British Columbia.