An Edgewood, B.C., man who returned a library book 64 years late said he kept it because it was “gold,” and likely even saved his life on one occasion.
Robert Murray took out the book, “Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travelers in the Wilderness,” during the spring of 1960, when he was an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia’s electrical engineering program.
Murray said the book, originally written by Horace Kephart in 1906, was far superior to other wilderness guides he’d read.
“I picked this one up, and it was gold, absolutely every page, and it remained so in my eyes, still does,” he told The Epoch Times in an interview….