A unique portrait of Canada from the country’s “most remarkable solo traveller.” Following the death of canoeist Herb Pohl, his friends discovered a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk. With help and commentary from bestselling canoe author and editor James Raffan, that work has become The Lure of Faraway Places . “There is nothing like it in canoeing literature,” says Raffan. “It’s part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history.”