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R. M. Patterson (1898–1984)

Autore di Dangerous River

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The R. M. Patterson Collection The Buffalo Head; The Dangerous River: Adventures on the Nahanni Far Pastures; Findlay's River; Trial to the Interior; Those Earlier Hills Reminiscences 1928-1961; and R. M. Patterson: A Life of Great Adventure by David Finch.

Opere di R. M. Patterson

Dangerous River (1954) 98 copie
The Buffalo Head (1777) 38 copie
Far Pastures (1963) 17 copie
Trail to the interior (1974) 17 copie
Finlay's River (1976) 11 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1898
Data di morte
1984
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Canada

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R.M Patterson tells an engaging good adventure story which ranges from northern Alberta to the Rockies to the Nahanni with wit, bonhomie humour, and not a little bit of sheer terror. There aren’t too many men who would yearn for and be able to drop everything and head for the wilds damn the consequences. He’s an extremely capable outdoorsman whose yarns speak to a ranching life in Alberta that is long gone and won’t be back. His stories of trophy hunting clients are written in such a way a reader could wish lightening would strike those who hunt only for a head or antlers to hang on a wall or backstrap to be fried up. Some of the stories are corny and long winded but enjoyable nonetheless.… (altro)
 
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ShelleyAlberta | Dec 4, 2022 |
The author was a Brit of privileged background who went to a private school, WWI, Bank of England, then threw it all away to undertake a life of adventure in Alberta, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories in Canada. This particular book in his corpus of work narrates the story of his life on the Buffalo Head ranch outside High River, Alberta. He’s a nomad, a wanderer, a lover of lonely places with harsh conditions, strong, extremely capable, excellent hunter and trapper, a man who can’t be tied down, who’s like the bear who went over the mountain just to see what he could see, and having found another mountain, had to climb that one too. Of course, he couldn’t be contained so when a road was put through Kananaskis, it proved too much so he sold off his ranch, took his wife, the rest of the horses he was fond off, and rode off into the mountains in B.C. It is an engaging read for life was never dull for R.M. Patterson.… (altro)
 
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ShelleyAlberta | May 10, 2022 |
The author, a well-educated man from England, after a meeting with his father whom he hasn’t seen in 20+ years, is convinced to leave his job at a bank in England to seek adventure where he may find it. He drops tools, leaves his mother behind, and heads for Alberta to homestead. Ever a man to seek adventure, much like fellow countryman and author William Francis Butler, he heads out with partner Gordon Mathews for the Nahanni River to trap for furs, and perhaps look for gold. His descriptive writing is exemplary, evocative, humorous, and not without wit although his descriptions of hunting for meat and fur are dark and disturbing (“… the third one landed right where it would do most good and stretched him dead in the snow.”) It’s a great read.… (altro)
 
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ShelleyAlberta | 2 altre recensioni | Feb 1, 2022 |
Exciting first-person narrative of the journeys made into the wilderness of Northern British Columbia from the NorthWest Territories. The first trip was a visit to the legendary South Nahanni River and later the efforts with a partner, to discover the source of the Nahanni. Prospecting, hunting and fishing are described with supporting photography. An absolute must-read if you like tales of the north and early travellers by canoe.
 
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SandyAMcPherson | 2 altre recensioni | Jun 24, 2017 |

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Statistiche

Opere
8
Utenti
196
Popolarità
#111,885
Voto
½ 4.5
Recensioni
7
ISBN
35
Preferito da
3

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