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Tired of the frantic activity of society, and, more troubling, growing tired of each other (and their inability to have a child), Alan Kesselheim and Marypat Zitzer decide to take unusual steps to avert a crisis in their marriage. They escape on a year-long canoeing expedition. They begin paddling at Grand Cache, Alberta, on the Smoky River. Following old fur-trade routes, they travel northeast, to the far end of Lake Athabaska. Their first summers paddling done, they dig in for a long, lonely winter in a tiny cabin in a deserted fishing camp. It is here that Marypat discovers, against all expectations, that she is pregnant. When the thaw comes, they resolve to press on into the Northwest Territories, north of the tree line and beyond the reach of medical help, to try to reach Baker Lake although, assuming all goes well, Marypat will be heavily pregnant by the time they reach their destination The heart of Going Inside is not the adventure of white-water rapids or the ferocious storms and numbing cold, but rather Alan Kesselheims deep joy at the beauty and healing power of the natural world discovering fresh wolf tracks, looking an otter in the face, observing the ever-changing c

Author

Kesselheim, Alan S., 1952-

Publisher

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771044502

Subjects

History, Travel, Sociology