Volume 13, Number 4 · September 11, 1969
Ah! Wilderness
By R.W. Flint
Notes From the Century Before
by Edward Hoagland
Random House, 272 pp., $6.95
Mr. Hoagland's account of his trip in June and July of 1966 to northwestern British Columbia is one of the most interesting, revealing and delightful travel books I have read. 'I walk around and around the experience with my questions, but can't dislodge it from its naturalness. They made berry beer from the soapberries and wine from the saskatoons.' Expand these sentences to 272 pages and you have the book; first, its hovering circularity, its beautifully woven, highly concentrated structure. In 1960 Hoagland made his honeymoon trip to the region and saw that this marvelous web of watersheds, gorges, and rivers of the coastal range, once an amateur prospector's paradise, was now, and soon would cease to be, a writer's goldmine. The second sentence has all the exotic Arcadian flavor that one could ask for.
Review, 1594 words
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