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Her Island: The Story of Quetico's Longest Serving Interior Ranger - Softcover

Friedrichs, Joe

 
9780997476866: Her Island: The Story of Quetico's Longest Serving Interior Ranger
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0997476869 ISBN 13: 9780997476866
Verlag: 10,000 Lakes Publishing, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Janice Matichuk first set foot on her island in Quetico Provincial Park in 1985. Located near the end of Minnesota's iconic Gunflint Trail, this remote park is the heart of North America's "canoe country." Decades later, and enduring beyond her untimely passing in the summer of 2020, Matichuk's legacy includes being the longest serving interior ranger in the history of the park.Over the course of three decades, Janice raised two children on the island. She saved the lives of canoeists who tumbled into the frigid border lakes of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Ontario's Quetico. She had been charged by moose, canoed nearly every inch of the 1.2 million-acre park, and watched many young paddlers grow into adults.This is a story about life inside one of North America's most remote places. It is also a reflection of a woman who broke through barriers and refused to conform to societal norms. At its heart, however, it is an examination of the challenges that life presents. It is a testament to the fact that people's experiences-good, bad, and on idyllic wilderness islands-all have much in common.

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Verlag
10,000 Lakes Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0997476869
ISBN 13 
9780997476866
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
180
Herausgeber
Hercules Beth
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