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.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	288
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Harbour Publishing
Fecha de Publicación	2010-10-01
Dimensiones	6.2" x 9.0" x 2.9" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	Canadiense
Premios	Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction 2011 (Finalist)

Lawrence, Grant

Grant Lawrence is
an award-winning author, and renowned CBC broadcaster. He is the author of
three best-selling books for adults: Adventures in Solitude (2010), The
Lonely End of the Rink (2013), and Dirty
Windshields (2017). Bailey the Bat and the
Tangled Moose, his first children's picture book, was released in
2021. Grant Lawrence is the first author in the history of the BC Book Prizes
to win the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice twice. Grant is also the host of the
CBC Music Top 20, the lead singer of The Smugglers, and a Canadian Screen
Award winner. He is also a goalie for the Vancouver Flying Vees beer
league hockey team. Grant Lawrence is married to musician Jill Barber and
they live in Vancouver with their two children, Josh and Grace. Return
to Solitude is Grant's long-awaited sequel to Adventures
in Solitude.