Diary of a Wilderness Dweller

David Allinson is the president of the Rocky Point Bird Observatory in Victoria, B.C.

This book is an inspiring account of how the author, through a
combination of hard work and resourcefulness, made a life for herself in
a remote corner of British Columbia, south of Bella Coola. Czajkowski is
the author of To Stalk the Oomingmak and Cabin at Singing River and was
a regular contributor to Peter Gzowski’s Morningside. In Diary of a
Wilderness Dweller, we follow her trials and tribulations as she builds
two cabins by a lake at an elevation of 5,000 feet. With only a loyal
pack dog for a companion, and largely using materials taken from the
land, she transforms her wilderness land claim into the Nuk Tessli
Alpine Experience, an opportunity for artists, naturalists, and hikers
to experience the rugged beauty of the Coast Range. Its regrettable
absence of photographs notwithstanding, this book is a remarkable
tribute to human

ingenuity and to the wonders of nature.