Author: Deanna Kawatski. Published by Whitecap Books, Vancouver, BC., 1994, 1st Edition. (1998 2nd Printing) Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor handling wear and slight age-yellowed pages. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 6 x 9 inch, 194 pages.
WILDERNESS MOTHER, The Chronicle of a Modern Pioneer, by Deanna Kawatski , is about raising a family in the Canadian wilderness, without electricity or running water, over 100 miles from the nearest paved road--this is a life almost unique in the 20th century.
"Kawatski tells her absorbing tale in eloquent prose". -Publishers Weekly
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski was born in Salmon Arm, British Columbia and grew up in Kamloops, B.C.. She travelled extensively in the 1970's and spent three years living in Europe, her travels financed by intense bouts of tree planting back in B.C.. Deanna met author, George Ryga in 1974 and he beame her mentor. In 1978 she worked as a forestry lookout attendant in Northern B.C. where she met her hermit husband. For the next thirteen years she led the life of a pioneering mother in the wilderness. Deanna has served as a regional representative for the Federation of B.C. Writers and also worked as a writer-in-resident at the Ryga Centre in Summerland. For the past twenty-six years Deanna has given many readings and workshops. She is featured on the first-ever Literary Map of BC.
