By John Schreiber
Set within the wild nation north of Lillooet and west of the nice Fraser River, Old Lives: within the Chilcotin Backcountry paints the rugged panorama and both rugged lives of the Chilcotin’s enigmatic old-timers: Aboriginal and settler, female and male, deceased and alive. It takes vigilance, endurance, braveness and humour to reside the place survival calls for a deep wisdom and belief of the land, the place prosperity is synonymous with self-sufficiency and the place thriving is determined by a group of neighbours and neighbors who might be counted on within the direst of times.
In his moment number of Chilcotin tales, John Schreiber unveils an city existence that maintains to encroach upon the BC inside, and because it does, the previous methods disappear; conventional wisdom and talents are forgotten, and the legends fade into delusion. Old Lives is a ebook that recognizes and honours the region’s backcountry elders, their lifestyle and the wild liveliness of the nice Chilcotin land the place they've got existed for centuries.
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