The Cougar Lady by Rosella Leslie
Every town has its celebrities, but Sechelt's own unique and larger-than-life personality is wholesome enough to satisfy all of North America's appetite for eccentrics. Asta Bergliot Solberg, or Bergie, as her friends knew her, lived life on her own terms. She climbed wild mountain trails to hunt for goats, demanded car rides from unsuspecting locals, spent a night in the woods wrapped in the skin of a bear she'd shot and thought nothing of rowing twenty-five miles down a dark, windyinlet. With equal ferocity she wrangled cougars, conservation officers and the police, who arrested her for packing a rifle in town. In this long-awaited memoir, Rosella Leslie pieces together Bergie's life story through a collection of interviews, local stories and personal anecdotes. THE COUGAR LADY: LEGENDARY TRAPER OF THE SECHELT INLET follows Bergie's life journey, one lived with ferocity and insurmountable fearlessness. Asta Solberg is a true icon of the Sunshine Coast, embodying the irreplaceable and unmistakable vibrancy of Sechelt itself.Rosella Leslie was born in Edmonton, Alberta, graduated from Elphinstone Secondary in Gibsons on BC's Sunshine Coast and trained as a medical records technician in Merritt, BC. For 11 years she lived at Clowhom Falls, 25 miles by boat from Sechelt, BC, and helped her husband look after a fishing resort. In Sechelt she worked with the Festival of the Written Arts as a director, program writer and house co-ordinator. Aided in her writing by weekly critiquing sessions with the Quintessential Writers Group, led by editor and author Betty Keller, Rosella also attended workshops with Ian Slater and Daniel Wood. Rosella's feature articles and fictional stories have been published in The Leader, Alive Magazine and Coast News Weekender. Rosella lives in Sechelt with her husband, John. Please visit quintessentialwriters.com/leslie.html.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781927575635 |
| ISBN 10 | 192757563X |
| Title | The Cougar Lady |
| Author | Rosella Leslie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Caitlin Press |
| Year published | 2014-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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