DATE OF BIRTH: 1940

PLACE OF BIRTH: Stockton,CA

ARRIVAL IN CANADA: 1973

ARRIVAL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: 1973

EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: Rancher, Horse Logger, Riding Instructor

BOOKS:

"Hidalgo: The Desert Diaries. 100 Days Across The Atacama." Elly and Nathan Foote, 2004 NE BookWorks, ISBN 0973253916

"Riding Into The Wind: On Horseback Out of Patagonia, A Life Journey." Elly and Nathan Foote, 2003 NE BookWorks, ISBN 0973253908

Before settling down in Southbank, B.C. in 1973 and raising their three daughters on their wilderness horse ranch (clearing the land and logging with Belgian draft horses), Elly and Nathan Foote traveled 18,000 miles on horseback from the southern tip of Argentina, through 14 countries during their five-year equine odyssey. Their two books are about this incredible life journey
through unexplored territory. Called by one reviewer: "A radical experiment in freedom and the price they paid for it! A literary gem in a totally new genre."

[Also see Elly Foote entry.]

[BCBW 2007] "Travel"