Daylight in the Swamp

by Dewdney, A. K.

• ISBN13: 9781550022513
• ISBN10: 1550022512
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd

Summary

Daylight in the Swamp is the bush memoirs of Selwyn Dewdney, a noted Canadian artist and recorder of native rock art. His two great loves, art and the Canadian north, come together in this book. His respect for native culture and art is reflected in his own work, his insight into native rock art, and his passion for canoeing and the northern experience. The third theme of the book is history spanning the period from 1910 through to the 1970s during which the old north largely vanished. Dewdney was there to record the images of forgotten dreams painted on rocks and cliffs throughout the Canadian Shield. Thanks to these memoirs we are all there to witness these things with Dewdney.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	6	(2)
List of Plates	8	(1)
Preface	9	(2)
1. First Love	11	(10)
2. A Few Acres of Snow	21	(10)
3. Bush Apprenticeship	31	(14)
4. History is Now	45	(14)
5. On the Edge of Another World	59	(12)
6. Lac Seul Sagas	71	(10)
7. The Canoe	81	(8)
8. Up Shetland Creek	89	(18)
9. Bush Honeymoon	107	(14)
10. Men and Boys in the Mountains	121	(14)
11. Packing on the Pic	135	(10)
12. Boys in the Bush	145	(12)
13. Red Ochre	157	(14)
14. Island Quest	171	(14)
Appendix: Radio Memoirs of Canon Sanderson	185	(6)
Selected Publications of Selwyn Dewdney	191