Adventures in Solitude : What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged EPUB
by Grant Lawrence
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From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel Curve of Time Blanchet to Jim Spilsburys Coast Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbias most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece of BC coastline.
Young Grants father bought a piece of land next to the park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters. In those years Desolation Sound was a place where going to the neighbours potluck meant being met with hugs from portly naked hippies and where Russell the Hermits school of life (boating, fishing, and rock n roll) was Grants personal Enlightenmentan influence that would take him away from the coast to a life of music and journalism and eventually back again.
With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer in tow, an older, cooler Grant returns to regale us with tales of going bush, the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and his awkward struggle to convince a couple of visiting kayakers that hes a legit CBC radio host while sporting a wild beard and body wounds and gesticulating with a machete. With plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of a place and the growth of a young man amidst the magic of Desolation Sound.
Young Grants father bought a piece of land next to the park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters. In those years Desolation Sound was a place where going to the neighbours potluck meant being met with hugs from portly naked hippies and where Russell the Hermits school of life (boating, fishing, and rock n roll) was Grants personal Enlightenmentan influence that would take him away from the coast to a life of music and journalism and eventually back again.
With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer in tow, an older, cooler Grant returns to regale us with tales of going bush, the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and his awkward struggle to convince a couple of visiting kayakers that hes a legit CBC radio host while sporting a wild beard and body wounds and gesticulating with a machete. With plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of a place and the growth of a young man amidst the magic of Desolation Sound.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
- Publication Date:15/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781550176476
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
- Publication Date:15/06/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781550176476
