Shield Country: The Life and Times of the Oldest Piece of the Planet - Paperback

by Jamie Bastedo (Author)

The Canadian Shield is a distinct ecological region that forms the evergreen, granite-studded crown stretching across two-thirds of North America. In size, it approximates western Europe with one percent the number of people. A satellite view of the region on a winter's night shows tiny, widely scattered blips of light-islands of human settlement adrift in a sea of subarctic wilderness. In age, the shield's primeval bedrock dates to the beginning of earthly time. Shield Country unfolds a fascinating story of unrivaled Precambrian geology, of wild rivers and millions of pristine lakes, of an ecological junction where subarctic and arctic climates, plants, birds, and mammals weave a richly textured wilderness fabric.

Author Biography

Jamie Bastedo is a well-established and popular science writer, and young-adult novelist. His books include Falling for Snow, Free As the Wind, On Thin Ice, Sila's Revenge and Tracking Triple Seven. When not out on the land, he hangs his hat in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.