Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged...

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Grant Lawrence

Adventures in Solitude

What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged

Grant Lawrence

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Harbour Publishing
07 January 2011

Travel writing

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.

By: Grant Lawrence
Imprint: Harbour Publishing
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781550175141
ISBN 10: 1550175149
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 07 January 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Grant Lawrence hosts the popular CBC Radio 3 Podcast with Grant Lawrence, and Grant Lawrence Live on CBC Radio 3 and Sirius 86, and can also be heard on various CBC Radio One programs such as DNTO, Spark, All Points West and On The Coast. He still spends much of each summer at his cabin in the Sound.