Pike's Portage
Stories of a Distinguished Place
Pike's Portage plays a very special role in the landscape of Canada's Far North and its human history. It is both an ancient gateway and the funnel for early travel from the boreal forest of the Mackenzie River watershed to the vast open spaces of the subarctic taiga, better known as the Barren Lands of Canada. This book is a rich and wonderful comopendium of stories about this area and the early white explorers, the Dene guides, the adventurers, the trappers, the misguided wanderers (like John Hornby) as well as the modern-day canoeists who passed this way. For the reader, it provides an absorbing escape into the past and the endless solitud…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Henderson, Bob (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-77070-548-7
- EAN: 9781770705487
- Produktnummer: 20458834
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'879 KB
Über den Autor
Morten Asfeldt has travelled extensively in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut on personal canoe, hiking and dogsled adventures, as a commercial canoe and raft guide, and with students as part of his teaching at the University of Alberta's Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alberta. Morten has published in academic journals and magazines, and has contributed a chapter to Nature First (Toronto: Natural Heritage Books-Dundurn Press, 2007). In addition, Mortn's photographs from the North appear in a number of books, magazines, brochures, and websites. Morten lives in Camrose with his wife, Krystal, and their two children, Jasper and Kaisa. Bob Henderson has taught outdoor education at McMaster for twenty-eight years, often sharing stories on the trail involving characters and events related in this book. Bob is the author of Every Trail has a Story: Heritage Travel in Canada (Toronto: Natural Heritage Books-Dundurn Press, 2005) and co-editor with Nils Vikander of Nature First: Outdoor Life in Friluftsliv Way (Toronto: Natural Heritage Books-Dundurn Press 2007). Bob lives in Uxbridge, Ontario.
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