Product Description

One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautiful beyond any simple expletive, the Temagami wilderness was a land rich in timber, clear-water lakes, fast flowing rivers, mystery and adventure. Newcomb befriended the local Aboriginals - the Deep Water People - and quickly discovered the best way to explore was by canoe.Bewitched by the spirit of an interior river named after the elusive brook trout, Majamagosibi, Newcomb had a remote cabin built overlooking one of her precipitous cataracts. The cabin remained unused for decades, save for a few passing canoeists; it changed ownership twice and slowly began to show its age. The author discovered the cabin while on a canoe trip in 1970. Like Newcomb, Hap Wilson was lured to Temagami in pursuit of adventure and personal sanctuary. That search for sanctuary took the author incredible distances by canoe and snowshoe, through near death experiences and Herculean challenges. Secretly building cabins, homesteading and working as a park ranger, Wilson finally became owner of The Cabin in 2000.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1852795 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 175 pages

Customer Reviews

The Compicated Telling of a Simple Story
I was really excited when The Cabin showed up in my mailbox and started reading it right away. The next few weeks (yes, weeks) of getting through the book became a mission. In general, the story is good with satisfying stories set in the Temagami wilderness area of Ontario, the passion (almost freakish obsession) of a canoeist, and a little coming-of-age story of the author and primary character. But, key geographic locations within the stories become muddied with inexact detail or a lack of explanation. Unless you are personally very familiar with the territory, you become lost quickly. The author spends an inordinate amount of time discussing these locations, rivers, portages, and you find yourself referring to a basic map that has little detail included on the back cover. And it's curious how the author uses an absolute thesaurus full of adjectives and adverbs throughout the book. Keep a dictionary handy while reading this, you'll need it. This particular aspect of the book bothered me most as the spectrum of linguistics the author uses hardly complement the back-to-nature, simplistic and uncomplicated world of the Temagami wilderness. Instead of impressing the reader with his arsenal of unique words (which is what is seems the author is trying to do), it serves as a distracting paradox to the simplicity of the story and really reduces the enjoyment and of the read.