Its post-war chapters, however, show us Canada through the eyes of a new arrival who, his senses alive to the living world, concluded that here, too, there was something worth fighting for. The biography of a Czech botanist turned World War Two hero who later emigrated to Canada, the book begins as a tale of wartime intrigue. This is the quietly important contribution of Jan Drabek’s Vladimir Krajina: World War II Hero and Ecology Pioneer. Our relationship to the wild is globally unique-less romantic than nuanced, less abstracted and more concrete-and it warrants a literature to give voice to our experience. And while our American cousins largely emptied their country of wolves, bears and cougars, many Canadians still live in the presence of animals that inspire fear and awe. America’s frontier, defined as the advancing line of colonial settlement, closed in the 1890s by that measure, Canada’s frontier remains open. In many parts of the country, First Nations remain the dominant presence on their territories, while our twinned colonial cultures also shaped the country as different from any other. The first humans to arrive in what is now the United States, for example, invaded a true wilderness south of the continent-spanning glaciers that still covered almost all of Canada as those ice sheets retreated, humans and other species settled the Canadian landscape nearly in lockstep. These authors’ works contain much that is universal, but they do not-cannot-“speak Canadian.” Ours is a particular natural history. Meanwhile, ask even the most avid outdoorsperson or environmentalist whose thoughts on nature inspire them, and you will hear names such as Henry Thoreau, John Muir, Annie Dillard or perhaps the Romantic poets: voices from America and Britain. In high school we learn that our country’s history amounts to survival in a rugged land, with “human against nature” as a kind of motto. Tell Us What You Think! Summary of Review Please summarize your experience with this business.ġ25 characters remaining | 125 total characters allowed Your Review of the Business Please describe your experience with this business.Canadians live closer to wild nature than almost any people on Earth, and yet the way we think about the natural world remains largely unexplored terrain. Go to our FAQ page to see our Review Policy
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