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While trying to determine a massive peak glimpsed in a storm, a climber and trail crewman learns the mysterious legend of Hooker and Brown.
Since the fur trade had vanished, these two portals through which the voyageurs passed over the mounatin barrier, were lost and even their existance questioned. Yet these peaks, rumoured to be 16,000 feet high, drove the exploration of the Rockies, and fired the imagination of all - appearing on maps and atlases for almost century as the highest peaks in North America.
Part adventure story, part historical mystery, Hooker & Brown is a fictional narrative based on a true story of the Canadian Rockies.
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What They're Saying...
"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
Readings and Signings...
January 2011 - Commemorative ski to Athabasca Pass
About the Author
Jerry Auld on Mt. Gordon with Mt. Collie in the distance.
photo: Dustin Lynx
Born and raised in Calgary, Jerry Auld has called Canmore home since 1996, after traveling the world only to find the Bow Valley the best place to settle.
He worked two seasons for the provincial park trail crews and climbed avidly among the Rockies. During this time, he learned of the legend of Hooker and Brown, and was astonished to find himself so ignorant of so much of his own history.
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