The Lost Wilderness: Rediscovering W.F. Ganong's New Brunswick - Softcover

Guitard, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864928777 ISBN 13: 9780864928771

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction

Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wilderness of New Brunswick, systematically mapping previously uncharted territories, taking photographs, and documenting observations on the physical geography of the province that laid the foundations for the modern study of New Brunswick's rich natural history. In The Lost Wilderness, acclaimed photographer and naturalist Nicholas Guitard retraces many of these journeys, comparing his notes with those recorded by Ganong in handwritten travel journals and published articles and monographs.

Richly illustrated with archival maps and photographs made by Ganong alongside the author's own stunning photography, The Lost Wilderness finds a New Brunswick both utterly changed and amazingly similar to the wild place Ganong found a century ago. Nicholas Guitard revisits Ganong's explorations and, in a warm and conversational style, illuminates Ganong's contributions to our present geographical knowledge of New Brunswick and traces the effects of millennia of glacial erosion and tectonic upheaval as well as the more recent effects of human settlement and resource exploitation.

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Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wilderness of New Brunswick, systematically mapping previously uncharted territories, taking photographs, and documenting observations on the physical geography of the province that laid the foundations of the modern study of New Brunswick's rich natural history. In The Lost Wilderness, acclaimed photographer and naturalist Nicholas Guitard retraces many of these journeys, comparing his notes with those recorded by Ganong in handwritten travel journals and published articles and monographs.

Richly illustrated with archival maps and photographs made by Ganong alongside the author's own stunning photography, The Lost Wilderness finds a New Brunswick both utterly changed and amazingly similar to the wild place Ganong found a century ago. Nicholas Guitard revisits Ganong's explorations and, in a warm and conversational style, illuminates his contributions to our present geographical knowledge of New Brunswick.

Deftly moving between past and present, Nicholas Guitard brings to life a New Brunswick that is only lost to our increasingly hectic, urban lives — a New Brunswick that we must find ourselves if we want to preserve if for future generations.

About the Author:

Nicholas Guitard is a photographer, canoeist, hiker, and also an engineer. What began as an avid interest eventually transformed into a labour of love. Over the past two years, he has documented New Brunswick waterfalls through photography and anecdotal and historical information, culminating in a website dedicated to waterfalls and this book, www.waterfallsnewbrunswick.ca.

About this edition

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0864928777
• ISBN 13: 9780864928771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232