A Life in the Bush
Lessons from My Father
Winner of
The CAA–Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography
The 2000 Ottawa-Carlton Book Award
The (U.S.) Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book
In 1929, at the age of twenty-two, Duncan MacGregor, the son of a lumberman, great-grandson of a voyageur, and an avid reader and baseball fan, headed off into the largest tract of preserved bush in the world: Ontario’s Algonquin Park. When he got there, he was home for the rest of his life.
From the true nature of fishing to the harsh realities of raising a family in the woods, from the role of fear in the bush to the small nuances of family relationships, A Life in the Bush is painted on a canvas both vast…
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September 8, 2015
Roy MacGregor is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award); A Life in the Bush (winner of the U.S. Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People, as well as two novels, Canoe Lake and The Last Season, and the popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A regular columnist at The Globe and Mail since 2002, MacGregor's journalism has garnered four National Magazine Awards and eight National Newspaper Award nominations. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was described in the citation as one of Canada's "most gifted storytellers."…
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Original Highways
Roy MacGregor
The Colour of Canada
Photographs by All Canada Photos; Introduction by Roy MacGregor
Canoe Country
Roy MacGregor
The Home Team
Roy MacGregor
A Life in the Bush
Roy MacGregor
Reality Check in Detroit
Roy MacGregor
The Boston Breakout
Roy MacGregor
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Al Strachan, Foreword by Roy MacGregor
The Mystery of the Russian Ransom
Roy MacGregor
The Highest Number in the World
Roy MacGregor; illustrated by Geneviève Després
Panic in Pittsburgh
Roy MacGregor
Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament
Roy MacGregor