Lawrence Winkler

My love of poetry was always unrequited. As with all young boys, my English teachers forced me to memorize and recite unintelligible Shakespearean sonnets and turn bad blood into worse ink. For the next half-century, I never gave it a chance.

In early spring, for more than twenty years, two old doctors and their fishing guide motored to a Barkley Sound float cabin on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. In a hallowed place where all men were equal before fish, pure sea air cleansed their souls.

Let us speak of the physics of time and space and the metaphysics of travel and meaning and the writing of it all.

In this audiobook lives the final seven original stories of survival, suspense, and satire from the Sage of the Salish Sea - the most special season of a seasoned specialist. He will amuse you with his wit and wisdom....

You must really love this place if you want to return so badly. Or perhaps you just want to spend some more special time with Doctor Sababa, our internal medical consultant at Harbour City Regional Hospital....

You will love Harbour City. Most visitors to the island drive right through, without taking time to explore its attractions. But you’re not most visitors. You will get to spend some time. Go ahead. Turn on your radio. That’s BC Bud, 101.3 FM on your home and native band....

In the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up to hitchhike around the world....

In the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up to hitchhike around the world....

The Final Cartwheel is the story of a young doctor's return home, after a five-year hitchhiking odyssey around the world....

In the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up, to hitchhike around the world....

Somewhere beyond the Salish Sea lived the Stout Men....

The fates of three tormented men, born as many eras apart, come together in a cave on the Coromandel peninsula of New Zealand - Tama of the Ngatei Hei, Billy Green in the days of gold, and Dr. Sababa from across the sea - seeking revenge, discovering treasure, and looking for redemption....

Most remote islands of the imagination conjure up paradise. Japan is an archipelago of puzzlement. From the sands that forged their swords and serenity, they traveled a Samurai Road of temples and shrines, feudal fortresses, and flowing mountain streams of wasabi....

Heraclitus’ fragments come together, to life, and toward its antitheses in this fantastic metaphysical journey....

It lives in the hole where the moon used to be. And for most of the worst part of the Northern winter, over the last two decades, so have we. The real South Pacific was not a Bali Hai musical, but a drama of cannibals and castaways, headhunters and slavers, paradise and perdition....

Madagascar is a drug. Between its dazzling culture and biosphere - 90 percent of its species found nowhere else - everything is beautiful. In 2016, I flew 30 hours over three continents, into a singular adventure across 4,000 kilometers of isolation....

The American West was a notion, not a nation. It was a process, not a place. Late in the summer of 2013, I set out to find the Old West, what it had been, and what had replaced it....

Twenty-five years ago they bought a homestead, in the middle of Vancouver Island, on the water's edge. There are still reflections off the small lake at the foot of Mount Benson....