{"id":11440,"date":"2015-12-02T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11440"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:58:17","slug":"soul-of-wilderness-strikes-with-nature-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/12\/02\/soul-of-wilderness-strikes-with-nature-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul of Wilderness<\/em> strikes with nature photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soul of Wilderness<\/i> by John Baldwin and Linda Bily is a delightful book about a couple\u2019s wilderness journeys in western BC and Alaska. Baldwin and Bily spent years exploring the untamed wilderness of the Coast Mountains together and they couldn\u2019t resist sharing their adventures with people any longer.<\/p>\n

The book is a thorough compilation of photographs and words detailing the couple\u2019s backcountry skiing and hiking exploits. Stunning photographs accompany charmingly written blurbs on whichever glacier or mountain the authors decided to ski across that month.<\/p>\n

At first glance, Soul of Wilderness<\/i> seems like an innocuous coffee-table book that would make a great, inoffensive Christmas gift for that hard-to-buy-for aunt or uncle. However, Baldwin and Bily surprise the unprepared reader (yours truly) with alarmingly beautiful photographs of tarns, Nunataks, and aretes (for those of you not up on your glacial feature terminology I highly recommend Chris Ayles\u2019 <\/i>Applied Geomorphology course).<\/p>\n

The authors succeed so tremendously in conveying their curiosity and passion for \u201cuntamed wilderness\u201d that reading Soul of Wilderness<\/i> made me want to drop everything, strap on a pair of skis, and get helicoptered into some remote alpine location to do some soul-searching on a mountaintop.<\/p>\n

What really struck me about this book, above all else, were the photographs. Through them, Baldwin and Bily connect us with the intense beauty of North America\u2019s westernmost mountains. It\u2019s an amazing feeling, opening a book and seeing a picture of a stunning landscape completely devoid of human influence. The vast majority of us do not experience such pristine wilderness on a regular basis; reading this book is a way to do just that.<\/p>\n

So yes, I would recommend Soul of Wilderness.<\/i> Highly. And after reading it, if you\u2019re as compelled as I am to quit school and spend the winter skiing across mountain ridges then give me a call. I\u2019m looking for adventure partners. Just don\u2019t tell your parents it was my idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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