In 1939, Gilean Douglas turned her back on the comforts of urban life and settled into a small miner's cabin in a remote and inaccessible area of the Cascade mountains of British Columbia. She spent close to a decade there, living a simple life in close harmony with nature and savouring the completeness that solitude brings.

In Silence Is My Homeland, Gilean Douglas shares with the reader her satisfaction in the essential tasks of daily life and celebrates her connection with the natural world. First published in 1978, this timeless account of a life in the wilderness is a classic of B.C. nature writing, as fresh and relevant as when it was first written.

With an afterword by Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton, authors of Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home.

Nature Writing, 144 pp, 5½ x 8½
ISBN 0-9686933-0-X, paper, $15.99