Island Sojourn: A Memoir (Collected Works)

A CLASSIC OF WILDERNESS LITERATURE--AND A LUMINOUS PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN LEARNING TO LIVE DELIBERATELY "Island Sojourn combines the attention to language of poetry, the speculation of philosophy, and the page-turning story. It is the best such book I have read since Thoreau's Walden." ~ Linda Pastan "Magnificent...heart-stopping...vigorous scouring reportage" ~ Kirkus "Island Sojourn concerns itself with the gradual attainment of a state of grace - a satori of the sixth sense." ~ Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario "Prose that is as clear and compelling as the water in the lake." ~ Washington Post "Lyrical without being sentimental...a remarkable first book." ~ Windsor Star "A painter's eye for recording the world's voluptuousness" ~ Literary Guild of Canada When Elizabeth Arthur set off for northern Canada at the age of twenty, she had no idea she and her then-husband would end up buying a rocky three-acre island in a huge wilderness lake. Nor did she imagine she would one day write a memoir about the experience.