Authors Present Soul of Wilderness

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Sunday, November 15th, 2015
7:30 PM

John Baldwin and Linda Bily will be doing a slide show presentation and book signing at St. Ann’s Academy (835 Humboldt Street) at 7:30pm, on Sunday November 15, 2015. Soul of Wilderness is a stunning collection of photos and essays featuring the wild beauty of western British Columbia and Alaska.

Baldwin and Bily continually return to these magnificent examples of astonishing raw nature and share the land with wild wolves, salmon and grizzly bears! The book acts as a high impact field guide for the ultimate adventurer, bringing readers up close with this one of a kind Canadian region. Over the past forty years John Baldwin has completed numerous first ascents and pioneered many remote long ski traverses. He is the author of Mountains of the Coast (1999) and Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis. (2009). Linda Bily is a passionate skier, photographer and environmental engineer who fell in love with the big coastal glaciers of BC, Yukon and Alaska. She has completed over fifteen long ski mountaineering traverses and her photographs have been published in a wide variety of magazines, catalogues and displays. Traveling by foot and ski, their goal was simply to experience and document as much of these remote places as possible—to wander across the high meadows, ski from mountain tops and revel in the artful patterns of new-fallen snow.

With 166 full colour photographs, the authors document their mountaineering expeditions that would last anywhere from one to three weeks and often involve travel across difficult mountain terrain. So much more than just a stunning coffee-table book, Soul of Wilderness is sure to inspire readers to discover and connect with the intense beauty of this mountain wilderness.

For more information about this event, please contact the St. Ann’s Academy at: (250) 953-8829