Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country

THIS BEGUILING BOOK, WRITTEN PARTLY AS A MEMOIR AND PARTLY AS REPORTAGE, BRILLIANTLY EVOKES BOTH THE WILDERNESS AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE A LIVING THERE. JAKE MACDONALD WRITES ABOUT THE PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE OF THE GUIDES, BUSH PILOTS, COPS, CAMP OWNERS, AND OTHERS WHO MORE OR LESS EXPLICITLY, SHARE HIS LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL, UNTAMEABLE COUNTRY THEY INHABIT.