Gumboot Girls: Adventure, Love and Survival on British Columbia's North Coast

In the 1970s, droves of young women migrated away from big cities to rural settings across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, an area of harsh weather, rugged landscapes, and indescribable magic. There, they found freedom, community, and a revolution in sexual mores that many had never experienced. They established lasting friendships, criss-crossing through each other's lives, while living through adventurous and freewheeling times, testing the limits of their endurance by surviving in a sometimes harsh climate. The reasons for their migration were as varied as their personalities: some wanted to go back to the land and live a simpler lifestyle, some were looking for work, some were escaping the U.S. in protest against the Vietnam war, and some just wanted to see a mystical place they had previously only heard about. This book compiles the memoirs of 34 of these women. In very personal reflections on their lives, they chronicle the history of an area that was still rough around the edges. They also describe in detail the triumphs and heartbreaks of uprooting themselves from their familiar surroundings and moving to an unknown land of unspoiled beauty.