Czajkowski became well known to Canadians through her correspondence with Peter Gzowski on CBC's Morningside , where she described her initial foray into the wilderness near Lonesome Lake. This work describes visitors to her world - filmmakers, media people, and paying guests - and a technician, who flew in to connect her cabin to the Internet.
A collection of recipes that also gives an account of how a wilderness dweller - in a non-growing climate 20 km from a road, 60 km from a store, and 250 km from a town large enough to have a supermarket - feeds herself and her guests.
The spellbinding and uplifting story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness.
Deals with the struggles, the triumphs, and the lessons learned while carving a home and a living from one of British Columbia's most remote areas.
Transports the reader into the trackless expanse that is the author's 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.