Gary Ferguson
Joseph Campbell once said that sometimes you choose the myth, and sometimes the myth chooses you. In the spring of 2005 my wife and I were in a terrible canoeing accident in northern Ontario; she drowned. Curiously, just days before, out of the blue she turned to me and asked if I recalled the five wild places where, if something happened to her, she wanted her ashes scattered. This book is in part the story of those journeys. As I say in the intro, "At first, the journeys broke my heart. Later they helped me piece it together again." In the end, the wilderness showed me how to heal.
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Thank you so much for your work. I just finished Hawks Rest and really enjoyed it. I have some questions about your time in the Thorofare. I am hoping also to spend a summer writing in that region, though I was planning on the Gros Ventre. How did you come across that post of cabin tender, and is it still available? Your site appears down, so I contacted you here. Feel free to email: hudsonlgardner@gmail.com
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