The Road to Appledore
The Road to Appledore
Sharon Forzley
, Janice Cournoyer
, Candace Fertile
, Donna Gamache
, Robert Hykawy
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Susan Haldane
, Nora Gould
, BJ Underwood
, Sarah Schwartz
, Denise Duvall
, C. Ray
, Jude Castillo
, P. Thompson
, Kirsten Lyon
, Paula Ritchie
, Susan Toy
, Jane Graham
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Sara Conway
, Marilyn Stanley
, Ken Gilmour
, Lynn Bechtel
, Kim Cappellina
, Benita Hartwell
, Joseph Chirayil
, Randi Ann Doll
, Catherine Westerberg
, Maureen Brownlee
, Karen Nordrum
, Joe Mitchell
, Wendy Houlden
, Charles Leblanc
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Amanda Schempp
, Susan Jang
, Carrie Locke
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Andrea Pole
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Barry Kazimer
, Agnes Marshall
, Mary Danieli
, Rhona Brinkman
, Lynn Andrews
, Alanna Virtue
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Claire Gear
, Melissa Singh
, Kartik Gupta
, Holly Elisabeth
, Joshua Lewis
, Prabh Toor
, Lisa Mallia
, Heather Belliveau
, Margaret McKay
, Maria Mclean
, diana kirkwood
, Darlene Foster
, Kym Marsh
, Marin Beck
, Allison Dube
, Michael Edwards
, Noelle Walsh
, Debra Fisher
, Damen Rae
, Tanis Anne
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Michelle Stuckless
, Dani Kat
, Melissa Poremba
, Mary Lester
, Janet Meisner
, Wanda Brine
, Barbara Leckie
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Marilyn Kaluza Massoud
, Walter Quan
, Pam Keetch
, Linda Ludke
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Cheryl Johnson
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The recent pandemic accelerated an existing trend among urban Canadians to move to the country. Yet to quote from a 2022 Globe and Mail article, “People from cities don’t always realize what they’re getting into.”
For anyone setting out in that direction, or dreaming of doing so, Tom Wayman’s The Road to Appledore: Or How How I Went Back to the Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the First Place is rewarding reading. The book follows Wayman from Vancouver to southeastern BC’s Slocan Valley, deep in the Selkirk Mountains, and presents with his characteristic humour and philosophical insight his ensuing major shifts of perspective and knowledge. Mishaps, misadventures and moments of delight and wonder abound in Wayman’s prose reflections on his decades of living immersed in nature and the contemporary rural—from having to deal with a bear cub in his kitchen, to engaging in a vigilante action to protect a community water system, to the quiet satisfaction of growing his own food and flowers.
Wayman depicts the rural southwest of Canada in intimate detail, transporting readers alongside him.
