Robin Scottshouse would never forget that cloudy day, twenty years ago, when he was taken from the idyllic countryside to the urban jungle and the vicissitudes of adolescence; as well as that glorious day, ten years ago, when he boarded a train that would take him to the west coast of Canada and a decade-long naval career.
What a journey this little coureur de bois had to undertake from the chemin rural to a ship of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II! a journey that glorified his imagination and validated his wildest childhood thoughts.
The concordance and convergence of his masculine virtue had answered the call of duty... and served as the springboard to a fruitful, 40-year publishing career.