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From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel "Curve of Time" Blanchet to Jim "Spilsbury's Coast" Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia's most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece of BC coastline.
Young Grant's father bought a piece of land next to the park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters. In those years Desolation Sound was a place where going to the neighbours' potluck meant being met with hugs from portly naked hippies and where Russell the Hermit's school of life (boating, fishing, and rock 'n' roll) was Grant's personal Enlightenment--an influence that would take him away from the coast to a life of music and journalism and eventually back again.
With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer in tow, an older, cooler Grant returns to regale us with tales of "going bush," the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and his awkward struggle to convince a couple of visiting kayakers that he's a legit CBC radio host while sporting a wild beard and body wounds and gesticulating with a machete. With plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of a place and the growth of a young man amidst the magic of Desolation Sound.
Ebook Adventures in Solitude What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound Grant Lawrence 9781550175141 Books
"Loved it. Read while on our boat in Desolation Sound. Found Grant's cabin in the Sound and saw so many of the places mentioned in the book. Loved the humor and truth."
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Adventures in Solitude What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound Grant Lawrence 9781550175141 Books Reviews :
Adventures in Solitude What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound Grant Lawrence 9781550175141 Books Reviews
- I gave it four of five stars because it starts rather slow. But once it takes off, it's out the gate and around the bend. And you feel like you are with him in Desolate Sound, falling in love over and over with an isolated area sprinkled with eccentrics, laced with mysteries, and surrounded by beauty, both heartbreaking and dangerous.
- We read out loud to each other often as we live on our boat and sail often, a perfect activity for our lifestyle. These stories are funny, filled with history and reminders to live life well. We are ready for the next book that Grant writes.
We have bought a boat load of copies to hand to friends. We read to them during their visits with us. One chapter and they are hooked. We send them home with their own copy.
Makes a great gift. - Wonderful book. We read this while sailing Desolation Sound and took turns reading out loud. Poignant and funny.
- LOVE this book, great writing, and I want to go to Desolation Sound.
- Loved it. Read while on our boat in Desolation Sound. Found Grant's cabin in the Sound and saw so many of the places mentioned in the book. Loved the humor and truth.
- Before going to spend some time kayaking in British Columbia, I decided to purchase this book to read more about the Desolation Sound area. It sounded like this would be humorous and also contain some information. Well, the humor part was the big mistake. Grant Lawrence presented himself as a whiney twit, both as a child and adult. I only read a couple of chapters and then gave the book away. Not funny or entertaining.
- ...you'll enjoy Grant Lawrence's first book.
In many ways this feels like a travel book - Grant conveys a real sense of place as he takes you to Desolation Sound (found on the west coast of British Columbia, at the top Georgia Strait and east of Vancouver Island). But this is as much an autobiography and reminiscence as it is about this obscure corner of the world.
The book is the better for this personal perspective. We learn about Desolation Sound and its quirky residents through the eyes of Grant Lawrence, from his reluctant childhood introduction to this Canadian Outback through to his fully embrace of its charms as an adult.
The stories Grant relates are often funny and more than occasionally touching. Grant's wry, self-deprecating wit and matter of fact prose will remind readers of Bill Bryson or Garrison Keillor. Make no misatke though, Grant's voice is his own.
Reading Adventures in Solitude, we see Desolation Sound through eyes that are keen in their insight and affectionate in their gaze. The best compliment I can give is that I spent much of the book looking at Google Maps and dreaming of a summer vacation past the end of the road. - I started reading this book at Pender Harbour which is where my family went every summer. When the author was talking about "racing" to catch the ferry and getting seasick on the Sunshine Coast highway it seemed like he was talking about my own childhood.
I went boating with my family to Desolation Sound many summers during my childhood, but I didn't know half of the information about the history of the place. I never knew about the "Cougar Lady" or any of those people.
When we went boating this summer, we where chatting about many of the locations that the author talks about. It was fascinating to find remnants of an old homestead that we didn't even know about. We even found one of the huge walnut trees next to an old outhouse. It was fascinating.
Thankfully, I was too young to know much about the Lund Pub, but we really enjoy Nancy's Bakery these days. Lund has definitely gone through some upgrades since I was a kid.
The in-depth accounts of the psychological effects that happened to people who tried to live "off the grid" are really good too. People often have very "romantic" notions about living "off the grid" or "exiting civilization" and I think the chapters about people who did that and then slowly went "nuts" as a result is a good reality check. Adventures in Solitude
