Driftwood Valley recounts a magnificent story of adventure and survival in the wilds of northern British Columbia. For almost three years, naturalist Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher, together with her husband John, a trapper and explorer, lived and worked in the remote Driftwood River country. Marked "unexplored" and "unsurveyed" on the few incomplete maps of the area, it was a region that had seen few white people.<BR>From their wilderness cabin, the Stanwell-Fletchers studied the area's rich wildlife. Her account reveals the daily pleasures and insights sparked by living close to the wild. It also documents the isolation, hardships, and struggles, including the severe sub-arctic winters that brought deep snow and temperatures of forty-below.