Finlay’s River

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Adventures on wild waters

In Finlay’s River, R. M. Patterson, whose style used to be described by noted creator Bruce Hutchison as a a mixture between Thoreau and Jack London, tells the tale of his 1949 commute up this wild river in remote northern British Columbia. Patterson uses his own journey as a framework to recount the adventures of explorers who went there before. All had struggled up the Finlay for various reasons, and all left spirited accounts of that challenging, doomed river, which Patterson brings to vivid life again.

Much of the Finlay, a river of whitewater rapids that flowed through a magnificent country of dense forests and high mountains, disappeared endlessly under the waters of Williston Lake with the crowning glory of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam in 1968. On this engaging book, Patterson preserves the memory of this wilderness and the long-long gone adventurers who first told the sector about its existence.

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