{"product_id":"a-mountain-year-nature-diary-of-a-wilderness-dweller-9781550174410","title":"A Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller","description":"\u003cb\u003eNominated for ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award - Nature Category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life. \u003ci\u003eA Mountain Year\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully produced art book full of original paintings, sketches and diary entries, offering an awe-inspiring glimpse into the life of this independent spirit and the landscape that she calls home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this illustrated journal, Czajkowski intimately describes the splendour of seasonal transformation with her trademark expressiveness; each day brings new obstacles and surprising revelations. At the start of the year, she writes, The night was bright with a silvery soup of moonlight refracted off snowflakes fine as stardust. Spring arrives with breathtaking beauty and summer brings company from abroad. In the fall, Chris travels back to her first autumn at Nuk Tessli when she views an extraordinarily beautiful moment. The clouds hung low enough to almost touch the water . . . and a wonderful, bluish, pearly luminescence covered everything. Prepare to witness the magnificence of a year in British Columbia's high-altitude wilderness, a place of astounding natural beauty like no other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzajkowski, Chris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eChris Czajkowski\u003c\/b\u003e 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 created the Nuk Tessli Alpine Experience, an ecotourism business catering to hikers and naturalists. She has written ten books about her nearly thirty years of wilderness living, including \u003ci\u003eSnowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Mountain Year: Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Wilderness Dweller's Cookbook: The Best Bread in the World and Other Recipes\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently, \u003ci\u003eGinty's Ghost: A Wilderness Dweller's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Harbour Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855440810258,"sku":"9781550174410","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38ef2e29-032e-4bef-b506-bd00498f816f.jpg?v=1737480484","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-mountain-year-nature-diary-of-a-wilderness-dweller-9781550174410","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}