

They moved to Cambria, California, and built a house that was less than 1,000 square feet (93 m 2). Bennett Dam on the Peace River near their home forced them to move. The couple lived in Canada until the building of the W.A.C. Vena Angier was artistic and hand-illustrated several of his books. He eventually started writing survival books. Bradford Angier then set about learning to hunt and gather wild food. With the few tools and how-to books they brought with them, they were able to repair the cabin. Once there, they found an old prospector's cabin. They had long romanticized the life of Henry David Thoreau and decided to move to Hudson's Hope, a small town in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, to live off the land. In 1947 Angier and his new wife, Vena (Elvena, 1914–2011), were living in Boston, Massachusetts. He authored more than 35 books on how to survive in the wild and how to live minimalisticly off the land. Bradford Angier (– March 3, 1997) was an American wilderness survivalist and proponent of back-to-earth living.
