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Tell Me Grandmother
Published in Paperback by McClelland & Stewart (1985)
Authors: Lyn Hancock, Marion Dowler, and Douglas Tait
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Best Book I Have Ever Read
This book really got me the knowledge that I needed about my family since I am a descendant of Sam and Jane Livington. It was a part of me that I never knew was missing. Each year in August, there is a family reunion of the Livingstons and Howse's, held at Fort Victoria, just south of present day Smokey Lake, Alberta. I went last year and got the chance to meet more of my unknown relatives. Since, I have really gotten into my family genealogy and have found out alot of my family past that dates back to the early 1700 when the family came from England to Canada.


Travel Smart Western Canada (Western Canada Travel-Smart, 2nd Ed)
Published in Paperback by Avalon Travel Publishing (30 January, 2001)
Author: Lyn Western Canada Travel-Smart Hancock
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informative and practical
I like the various sample itineraries included in the books. The good thing is that the author goes into detail about the various stops and sights she has included in the itinerary. The author provides good and practical info on where to stay, how to get there and all the interesting things to do while you are there.


Winging It in the North
Published in Paperback by Oolichan Books (1997)
Author: Lyn Hancock
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Greatest thing I've ever read,loved the people and humor.
A 248-page treasure trove from this popular, peripatetic bundle of insatiable curiosity and wanderlust. It starts during her youth in Australia where she learned to get off the beaten tracks, and to travel on the cheap - tactics which served her well after branching out to Africa, Europe, the BC. Discovering the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon led to a continuing love affair with that enigmatic land, its people and wildlife. Hancock portrays the rigors and joys of traveling in a country where her unquenchable sense of adventure lands her in situations ranging from life-threatening (chased by a bear) to disgusting (eating rancid seal oil) to wildly funny (a grizzly and two cubs in the cab of her Datsun pickup). However, it is the people who highlight this account: the guides, trappers, prospectors, miners, homesteaders, biologists, stone carvers, truckers, hunters and bush pilots. A keen observer of human nature, Hancock describes their stoicism and humor; their love and reverence for the North; their concerns for the future. This is Hancock at her best, and illustrative of why she remains one of Canada's favorite authors. (Bob Jones in BC Outdoors)

An entertaining and easy read. Winging from the Mackenzie to the High Arctic via Hancock's fresh, crisp writing is to meet Northerners in person, to share their heritage, to enjoy wildlife and the clean, cool air of pristine landscapes, and to confirm what you knew all along: yes, you can get around red tape, and "no, it can't be done." Just do it. (George Diveky in Up Here)

The greatest thing I have ever read! I loved your descriptions of people and touches of humor. I will be forever in your debt (for writing it). (Ingrid via Ivy Pye, a reader)

Winging it in the North is a collection of anecdotes: some amazing, some funny, some scarcely believable, but all entertaining. It is a difficult thing to hold a reader's interest for over 200 pages with personal anecdotes. Boredom is not a factor here. This is about the unusual, unlikely and lucky things that have happened to her through serendipity. It is about the out-of-the-way places she has ended up through a chance meeting with a trapper or a carver or a hunter who has invited her along.

And she has ended up in some unusual places. She has been on seal hunts, fishing trips, soapstone carving expeditions, and trap lines. She has swum swollen rivers, bumped into bears and wolves, driven roads that hadn't been built yet, and flown to Canada's most northerly point to watch two men set off to walk to the pole. Through it all she has maintained a sense of humour and a sense of wonder at the places she has ended up, all of which has been greatly helped by the delightful people she has met. (John Wilson in Pier Magazine)

Lyn Hancock is a woman with more letters after her name than in her name yet she has never been trained to be a writer or a photographer, she just does it. The 15 books she's had published attest to the fact she does it fairly well. (Sandy Wiseman, Daily News, Kamloops).

Lyn Hancock's voice is light and readable, having been honed on thousands of magazine and newspaper articles and 15 books.


An Ape Came Out of My Hatbox
Published in Hardcover by McClelland & Stewart (1979)
Author: Lyn Hancock
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Destination Vancouver (Port Cities of North America)
Published in Library Binding by Lerner Publications Company (1998)
Authors: Lyn Hancock and Guenther Krueger
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Looking for the Wild
Published in Hardcover by Doubleday of Canada (1987)
Authors: Lyn Hancock, R. T. Peterson, and Robert Bateman
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Love Affair With a Cougar
Published in Hardcover by Doubleday (1978)
Author: Lyn. Hancock
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The mighty Mackenzie : highway to the Arctic Ocean
Published in Unknown Binding by Hancock House ()
Author: Lyn Hancock
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Northwest Territories (Discover Canada)
Published in School & Library Binding by Children's Book Press (1993)
Author: Lyn Hancock
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Nunavut (Hello Canada Series)
Published in Paperback by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd (1999)
Authors: Lyn Hancock and Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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