30 — Wednesday, December 4, 1991 - North Shore News

Canoe gave Poole

From page 25

the few who had rejected city life
and were reviving a lifestyle that
died in the "50s.

Ragged Island is a series of por-
traits of those people: Czech
prawn fisherman Milan Pesicka:
native artist Henry Speck; home-
steaders Lynne Siebert and Liz
Carr-Harris — people Poole came
to regard as remarkably strong in-
dividuals.

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It's also a story of man alone
against nature. Poole says he came
to regard solitary travel ‘more as
penance than pleasure.

“tthink it’s unnatural to want
to travel alone for fong stretches of
time. fm a social animal... would
like to have shared it with some-
one else, but that’s not to say |
moped...| don’t think you can
have the same revelations and on-
counters any way else but alone.”

Aselt-contessed canoe freak,

ideal access

Poole chose the canoe because tt
gave him access into the coastline
that a power boat could not: he
paddled so close to the land he
could literally reach out and tap
his paddle on the shore.

It also allowed him to travel in
total silence, often in the company
of birds, fish and killer whales.

Poole remembers how he felt
when he finally climbed out of his
canve after three long months:
“My arms were like stovepipes

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and my legs, withered and bow-
ed.”

That was summer's end, 1987.
Ragged Islands appeared more
than four years later. Poole admits
the book took much too long to
write,

“Vm a plodder and a re-
writer.”

Then again, he did make a film
in between, which took the better
part of a year.

Poole is hoping Ragged Islands

to coastline

succeeds as armchair travel. He
says he was careful not tc make it
a “hairy-chested canoeing
book.”

Will the film-maker star in and
direct a film-version of his journey?

Not likely. Although he’s spent
27 years as a director, producer
and writer, Poole confesses he
cannot bear stepping in front of a
camera.

“I'd feel very exposed,” he
admits.

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