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Nominated for ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award - Nature Category
In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life. A Mountain Year is a beautifully produced art book full of original paintings, sketches and diary entries, offering an awe-inspiring glimpse into the life of this independent spirit and the landscape that she calls home.
In this illustrated journal, Czajkowski intimately describes the splendour of seasonal transformation with her trademark expressiveness; each day brings new obstacles and surprising revelations. At the start of the year, she writes, "The night was bright with a silvery soup of moonlight refracted off snowflakes fine as stardust." Spring arrives with breathtaking beauty and summer brings company from abroad. In the fall, Chris travels back to her first autumn at Nuk Tessli when she views "an extraordinarily beautiful moment. The clouds hung low enough to almost touch the water . . . and a wonderful, bluish, pearly luminescence covered everything." Prepare to witness the magnificence of a year in British Columbia's high-altitude wilderness, a place of astounding natural beauty like no other.
Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550174410
Hardback
6.5 in x 9.5 in - 184 pp
Publication Date: 31/10/2008
BISAC Subject(s): NAT024000-NATURE / Essays,BIO000000-BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Thema Subject(s): WN-Nature & the natural world: general interest
Description
Nominated for ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award - Nature Category
In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life. A Mountain Year is a beautifully produced art book full of original paintings, sketches and diary entries, offering an awe-inspiring glimpse into the life of this independent spirit and the landscape that she calls home.
In this illustrated journal, Czajkowski intimately describes the splendour of seasonal transformation with her trademark expressiveness; each day brings new obstacles and surprising revelations. At the start of the year, she writes, "The night was bright with a silvery soup of moonlight refracted off snowflakes fine as stardust." Spring arrives with breathtaking beauty and summer brings company from abroad. In the fall, Chris travels back to her first autumn at Nuk Tessli when she views "an extraordinarily beautiful moment. The clouds hung low enough to almost touch the water . . . and a wonderful, bluish, pearly luminescence covered everything." Prepare to witness the magnificence of a year in British Columbia's high-altitude wilderness, a place of astounding natural beauty like no other.
Details
Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550174410
Hardback
6.5 in x 9.5 in - 184 pp
Publication Date: 31/10/2008
BISAC Subject(s): NAT024000-NATURE / Essays,BIO000000-BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Thema Subject(s): WN-Nature & the natural world: general interest