Author Chris Czajkowski’s new book isn’t just a pretty, sentimental story.
Harry: A Wilderness Dog Saga is written from the point of view of some of the dogs Czajkowski, who will be in Ladner for a book signing later this month, has owned over the years.
“It has some sad parts in it. Some reality,” she says.
Czajkowski, who has three decades of experience living in the wilderness, still does a lot of heavy, physical work at what she likes to call her solar-powered, cold water-only “retirement home” located halfway between Williams Lake and Bella Coola.
“A lot of people would consider the way I live to be very primitive but I consider it quite a luxury compared with some of the other ways I’ve lived during my life,” she says.
The book traces Czajkowski’s “off-the-grid life from a dog’s-eye view as she establishes an ecotourism business, builds cabins by hand and scratches out a living for herself and the pack,” a press release notes.
The book signing is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 21 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Black Bond Books at Trenant Park Square in Ladner. Czajkowski says she will bring her dogs Harry and Badger with her.
