Wilderness Mother – The Chronicle of a Modern Pioneer –

“‘ Wilderness Mother is a lovingly written re-creation of the fantasy many of us have entertained of a life that is far removed from pavement, supermarkets, trivia, or amenities: of a life that is absorbed, antural, and direct. Never sentimentalizing the backbreaking labor of building a cabin, making a garden, and sustaining a family in the wilderness of British Columbia, Deanna Kawatski makes us feel the immediacy of a life with a dirt floor, a washboard, elk meat and candlelight, as well as her heartbreak at its fragility.’ – Mary Clearman Blew, author of All But the Waltz and Runaway”

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Mountaintop Meeting
Bush Pregnancy and Birth
Bush Life with an Infant
Ben’s Birth and the Lands Branch
Feeding the Family
Where the Wild Things Are
Clothing, Cash, and an Automatic Wringer
Education in the Woods
A Natural Playground
South Mountain Hike
Fire
Ice
Visitors
Travels Beyond Home
In Praise of Nature
Epilogue