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Windcharm: A Dream Delayed

by Ken Robertson

184 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2877; ISBN 1-4251-1118-1; US$24.78, C$28.50, EUR20.36, £14.25

Who reads this book? Anyone who is tired of the stresses, tensions and traffic grid-locks of big city life and yearns for a large dose of peace and sanity in the country.

About the Book

Windcharm is a place of peace and usually, quiet. In this book you will learn how the author, at age 64, left the city life behind and, with some help from a couple of friend built his four-bedroom mortgage-free home near Georgian Bay, Ontario. As he says "it probably took me ten times longer than the professionals but there is no tax on my time or labour". You will discover, with him, the scandalous carryings-on of butterflies and other common garden inhabitants. Within these pages you will also get to know an endearing group of "cohorts" both human and the four-legged animals (well, one with only three) who make life gently and hilariously funny at Windcharm.

About the Author

Of all the jobs Ken Robertson has had there was only one he did not like. He kept it for as long as he could tolerate it - less then three hours. You can read about it in a chapter of the Windcharm book called Deck Memories on which the author and his friends spend many evenings spinning tales of their adventures as soldiers, sailors, reporters, news photographers and radio personalities. He has been a salesman, a trucking company owner, a licensed private investigator, a charter boat owner/skipper, a marine equipment businessman, a licensed Ontario fishing guide, a reporter/photographer and city editor for large daily papers and a television station, a government communications supervisor and, best of all, he avows, a freelance writer and the builder-owner and chief cook and bottle washer of Windcharm, the place of his dreams. Mind you, all this took place over more than 80 years of great living.

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