Timber

by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Glen Love (Introduction)

Robert Haig-Brown, best known as the author of books about fly-fishing, especially A River Never Sleeps, drew on personal experience as a logger in writing this novel of the northwest woods. Timber is the story of a friendship between two men, their work, their loves, and their involvement in the struggle over unionization of loggers. It is a stirring story of an earlier time, when trees were still "thick as hair on the back of a dog," and when people of conscience were concerned about the well being of the men who felled great trees, rather than the survival of the trees. Glen A. Love's introduction provides a context for a contemporary reading of this fascinating story, both in Haig-Brown's own development as a conservationist and as a writer, and in the changing story of our understanding of our relationship with the forest. --- from book's back cover

410 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown (February 21, 1908 — October 9, 1976) was a Canadian writer and conservationist, who is acclaimed internationally for his writing on fly fishing.

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an interesting book.

Set in the early 20's on the west coast of BC, the daily life of the men who logged the bush. The book goes into personal detail of the times, before unionization, before globalization, before roads, before what we now consider civilization. These men risked their lives daily in a way of life that has since disappeared. A moment in time. I personally enjoyed this book immensely. But then my dad was one of those men, a prospector in Alaska in the early 20's, a logger with a horse team and then an A-frame donkey and then he became a troller on the west coast, times gone by.