Who better to tell the narrative of our times about the restoration of land and culture than Wa’xaid (the good river), or Cecil Paul, who pursued both in his ancestral home, the Kitlope — now the largest protected unlogged temperate rainforest left on the planet. Cecil Paul’s cultural teachings are more relevant today than ever in the face of environmental threats, climate change and social unrest, and his personal stories tell of loss from residential schools, industrialization and theft of cultural property (the world-renowned Gps’golox pole). Told in Cecil Paul’s singular, vernacular voice by Briony Penn, Stories from the Magic Canoe spans a lifetime of experience and provides a valuable documented history of a generation that continues to deal with the impacts of colonization and environmental change.