Wilderness Ontario

by Gary McGuffin, Joanie McGuffin

A stunning celebration of Ontario's vast and diverse wilderness. Ontario is wild. The province's more than 12 million people live in densely populated urban centers, but Ontario is larger than France and Spain combined. Over a quarter of a million lakes hold one third of the world's fresh water. No matter where you go in Ontario, you are never far from wilderness. Nobody knows this better than veteran adventurers Gary and Joanie McGuffin. The McGuffins' Ontario is full of favorite rock promontory campsites where the swimming is perfect, lakes where loons and eagles nest, cliffs where peregrine falcons soar, ancient forests where only the sounds of nature are heard. Here, one can paddle whitewater rivers, sea kayak to distant granite islands, hike mountainous trails, and snowshoe the fresh forest trails left by foraging moose and wolves. The diverse, wild beauty of Ontario is celebrated in this breathtaking collection of images taken during two decades of travel to every corner of the province.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published July 19, 2007

Reviews

[Andrew]

This is book of photography and so, except for the captions, there isn't much reading. However there are some pretty amazing photos of Ontario. I wished there were more northern ontario photos as much one subject matter was Great Lakes area.

"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature" - Thoreau