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Coles A Somewhat Incautious Life: The Many Near Deaths of John Huizinga at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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An unconventional memoir-John has almost died a great number of times in a larger variety of ways. His near death stories are the connecting tissuein this series of short windows into a long life. His experience spans from occupied Holland in WWII and immigrant life in Canada, to helping clear land to build the Bennett dam and the early days of treeplanting in British Columbia. There are stories of smuggling opperations across the MExican border, running refugee camps for Doctors Without Borders and trying his hand as a spy in Vietnam, Cambodia as well as further NGO work with the Buddist nuns in the Zanskar river valley. One thing is for sure, his life choices left a lot of stories in their wake.
An unconventional memoir-John has almost died a great number of times in a larger variety of ways. His near death stories are the connecting tissuein this series of short windows into a long life. His experience spans from occupied Holland in WWII and immigrant life in Canada, to helping clear land to build the Bennett dam and the early days of treeplanting in British Columbia. There are stories of smuggling opperations across the MExican border, running refugee camps for Doctors Without Borders and trying his hand as a spy in Vietnam, Cambodia as well as further NGO work with the Buddist nuns in the Zanskar river valley. One thing is for sure, his life choices left a lot of stories in their wake.
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