Wild Sweets: Exotic Dessert and Wine Pairings

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

Alex Hall has been conducting canoe trips down northern rivers over the
last 30 years. His specialty is the Thelon River, a wildlife sanctuary
that straddles the Northwest Territories/Nunavut border above the
treeline. The author is a strong advocate for the protection of the
barren lands and wildlife from the ravages of mining development.

This account of Hall’s life in the North focuses on the three
blissful months he spends each year guiding clients down northern
rivers. We learn about how he got started in the adventure tourism
business, and about his encounters with huge herds of caribou, blackfly
swarms, and grizzlies, not to mention clients and extreme weather. The
history of trappers, early explorers, and past Aboriginal occupation is
also covered, and the book concludes with stories of continuing threats
to this last great northern wilderness.

Discovering Eden serves as a vivid reminder that if we allow paradise
to be destroyed, then we deserve the hell we’ve made of this earth.