Product Description

CHRIS CZAJKOWSKI left her truck at the end of a logging road 190 miles north of Vancouver and hiked for two days into wilderness to the site of what would become her home. She built three log cabins, an ecotourism business, and a life by an unnamed lake high in the Coast Range mountains. This edition of DIARY OF A WILDERNESS DWELLER shares her adventures as she wields chainsaw and axe to forge a new life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1380019 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-01
• Format: Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 207 pages

Review
The Globe and Mail : "Czajkowski has nurtured and developed a connection to the earth that most of us can hardly relate to, let alone appreciate ... [She] has followed a different path, reminding us of how much we don't need, and how much we are missing."
--The Globe & Mail


Vancouver Sun : "As western society becomes increasingly reliant on technology and marches further from its roots, Czajkowski's books allow us to share a rare, lingering glimpse of frontier life."
--Vancouver Sun

bcbooks.com : "Chris transports the reader into the trackless expanse that is her neighbourhood, opening a truly experiential window into the world of those who live alone, far from the concrete canyons that many of us call home."
--bcbooks.com

Review
"Czajkowski has nurtured and developed a connection to the earth that most of us can hardly relate to, let alone appreciate ... [She] has followed a different path, reminding us of how much we don't need, and how much we are missing."
--The Globe & Mail
(The Globe and Mail )

"As western society becomes increasingly reliant on technology and marches further from its roots, Czajkowski's books allow us to share a rare, lingering glimpse of frontier life."
--Vancouver Sun (Vancouver Sun )

"Chris transports the reader into the trackless expanse that is her neighbourhood, opening a truly experiential window into the world of those who live alone, far from the concrete canyons that many of us call home."
--bcbooks.com (bcbooks.com )

About the Author
Chris Czajkowski was born and raised in the north of England. She lived and worked in Uganda, New Zealand, the South Pacific and South America before settling in the remote reaches of British Columbia's Coast Range mountains, 480 kilometres north of Vancouver, where she operates the Nuk Tessli Alpine Experience. Her wilderness and cabin-building experiences have been documented in several bestselling books, including Cabin at Singing River, Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller and Nuk Tessli: Life of a Wilderness Dweller.

Customer Reviews

An inspiring, warm story by a modern day pioneer!
If you have ever dreampt of walking away from the frantic pace of modern day living, you must read the story of Chris Czajkowski (pronounced Tchaikovsky). My wife and I had the priveledge of spending three glorious and unforgetable days with Chris in the cabin featured in this story. Three years might have been enough to begin absorbing the depth of this womans wilderness challenges. You must read this book!!!

What a woman!
This woman has done things I have always dreamed of doing - building my own log cabin out in the wilderness. Her descriptions of her life during that time is wonderful and I just wish I could have been there too - to help her and learn from her. I loved the book.

A book for armchair adventurers- or adventuers on vacation.
This book came out of nowhere to me, and consequently enthralled me. Chris Czajkowski is a thoughtful, detailed writer (and artist) writing about an amazing place. She, also, is amazing to any society-dweller, living alone in the far wilderness (although she is no hermit). Fortunetely she chose to share what happened to her over the course of building her two cabins in the wilderness, as otherwise this book would never have come to be. Although this book is not for everyone, there are lucky people who will enjoy it. For them, it is superb.