Place of quiet waters.
Publisher: Longmans Canada
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
First sentence: Each spring, as the nomadic habits of our forebears begin to waken vague stirrings in the blood, most people experience that atavistic urge which varies in intensity with the thickess of the sufferer's civilised veneer - a sudden longing to get away from it all.
Description: An excellent story of two friends who spend two years on an isolated island off the Pacific Coast of British Columbia and their pioneering trials and tribulations with the animals and odd few local inhabitants;  hunting, fishing, building etc.
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