When We Walked on Frozen Rivers
My First Winter on our Remote Fly-In Trapline Reliving a Traditional Lifestyle as Old as the Rivers
Published on 15. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-1-0391-8103-8 (ISBN)
Description
Frozen Rivers is another spellbinding memoir in Elisabeth Weigand's YukonWild Series. In our times of pain and suffering, this series brings to the reader something beautifully positive. A life when lived with purpose and virtue can be long enough. Each chapter is steeped in the author's love of wilderness, her desire for adventure and her familiar intimacy with the land. Weigand orients the reader to the merits of slowing down the pace of life and reflecting on the significance of the smallest of our decisions.
Frozen Rivers takes people to one of the purest places in Canada's northern landscape: A distant fly-in trapline where Weigand and her partner spend the first of their winters understanding and exercising traditional life skills, adjusting to nature's regulations and discovering the bliss of shared seclusion and the satisfaction when less is more. Her writing is evocative and poetic, humorous and informative, held together with atmospheric descriptions of the untamed heart of the Yukon Territory. A land that is bigger than us.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
377 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0391-8103-8 (9781039181038)
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Born and raised in Frankfurt, Germany, Elisabeth Weigand's wild and passionate spirit drew her to the wild and passionate land of Haines Junction in Canada's Yukon in 1993. An avid adventurer who practices traditional forms of hunting, trapping, and gathering, Weigand has committed the past decades of her life to sharing her passions for the outdoors, nature, and animals with others as a professional wilderness tour and adventure guide.
Another passion-writing-led her to begin The YukonWild Series, a collection of memoirs and travelogue novels that recount her stunning journeys through some of the most raw and remote places in Canada's northern country.
Elisabeth Weigand is the owner and operator of Black Bear Wilderness Adventures Inc., a Yukon tourism company that offers trips and tours, remote cabin rentals, transportation, and more. She lives outside Whitehorse on a rural property with her two horses, Amigo and Morgan, and her female husky, Stella. Learn more about Elisabeth Weigand, The YukonWild Series, and what the Yukon has to offer at www.elisabethweigand.com.