For eight weeks a year, Ben Fogle and his sisters lived a barefoot and carefree life at their grandparents’ cottage on Lake Chemong in Ontario. In this memoir, Ben’s father recalls his own idyllic summers there, rowing the lake’s clear waters, catching crayfish, encountering snapping turtles in the ‘frog bog’ and developing the empathy with nature that informed his veterinary career.
Year after year the family returns to the lake. The children, barefoot and free, explore its sun-drenched wilderness... The summer Bruce turns ten seems, at first, like any other: swimming out to the raft, watching the gulls, frogs and herons, catching crayfish. But just when he thinks that life is perfect, everything begins to change, and over the course of two months both the harshness of the adult world and the patterns of the natural reveal themselves.Barefoot at the Lake is not only a beautifully written boy's-eye view of the animals, humans and landscape of his youth, it is also delightfully funny, with a moving wisdom at its heart.
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