Hooker & Brown (2009)
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About:
A trail crew working down in Kananaskis catch sight of a mysterious mountain in a storm,
and set off to rediscover the legend of two high peaks - the tallest on the continent -
marked on all the old maps, that guards a mythical pass.
Reviews:
Globe and Mail
Goodreads
"With this powerful and highly poetic first novel Jerry Auld achieves a new peak in the literary interpretation of the nature, history and culture of the mountain West.
It is a book about the power of maps and dreams that explores our relationship to gravity and ghosts, rock, water and place with an ending that will leave you breathless."
-- Robert William Sandford
A highly technically accomplished mountaineering novel with a clever plot-line and convincing characters.
-- Adjudication Jury, Boardman-Tasker Award 2009
"Like a polished stone, Hooker & Brown reveals layers of time, meaning and beauty."
-- -- Thomas Wharton, author of Icefields
Awards:
Boardman-Tasker Award, U.K. (Shortlist)
Banff Mountain Book Festival (Shortlist)