Bøger af Alfred Cool

The seemingly pastoral bliss of Noble, a small interior heartland town, explodes into scandal and outrage when the arrival of the Lipizzaner stallion show disrupts the quaint style and day-to-day living of the local Pony Club membership.

Canadian Travel and adventure, and a new page in Ethan's life awaits him when he dares to change his life and move to Haida Gwaii.

We, me and my navigator, Drake, drove forward relentlessly, lost on confusing, deserted back roads somewhere north and west of Campbell River. Forbidding, snow-burdened mountains hemmed us in on all sides. Our fuel gauge hovered near empty. The sun made a cameo appearance earlier that evening, briefly highlighting the orange peaks before another soggy layer of dense, dark clouds and late twilight smothered the sky above us. A coroner, if anyone ever found us, would likely declare our deaths accidental. But that would be misleading because we made our choice to get out-no matter what. We made that crucial decision standing on the wrong, crumbling bank of the rushing sluice of angry water smashing submerged rocks together like we were at a five-pin bowling alley. The raging torrent had no business still being there. Even after days of northern Vancouver Island monsoons, we expected the flash flooding to be over. However, this was not so, and this Rubicon was ours to cross.

Adventures along the coast and in the South Coast Mountains of British Columbia. It was after midnight on a moonless night. Mike and I were twenty-two hours into our summit day, downclimbing a jagged knife-edge ridge by headlamp, out of water and food, and still hours from the tent.We had descended a hellish wall of mud and shattered rock, stopping at a tenuous perch where cliffs fell away on three sides. There was nowhere to go from there.I peered into Mike's eyes through the weak amber glow from his failing headlamp. "Remind me," I said, "what Culbert wrote about this mountain?""He said Turner's a long two days from the car."I waved a hand at the gaping black chasm at our feet. "I wonder what he'd do about that?""I doubt he'd stand here all night talking about it," said Mike, and then he took a single step and dropped like a stone into the terrible abyss.

Consider the times, 1975... nuclear bomb tests fueling the Cold War, disco, the Pet Rock. We had it all. What else but a dark comedy with a backbone could come from that era? A good-humored, if rebellious, adventure seeker takes a summer job in a remote mining camp on Great Bear Lake, near the Arctic circle, with an idea he would get back to school in the fall. But when he learns more about the camp's sinister history, all hell breaks loose.This memoir is chock full of humour, actual action, colorful characters, and events. It is also a page from the story of Canada's nuclear addiction, our ground zero -- Port Radium, NWT.