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Sleeping Island : A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens by Prentice G. Downes (2006, Perfect)

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In an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands.

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PublisherNatural Heritage/Natural Hi-Story, Incorporated

ISBN-101933937033

ISBN-139781933937038

eBay Product ID (ePID)63058181

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleSleeping Island : a Journey to the Edge of the Barrens

Number of Pages268 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSpecial Interest / Adventure, Canada / Territories & Nunavut (NT, Nu, YT), Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, History

AuthorPrentice G. Downes

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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SynopsisIn an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands. Sleeping Island is the sensitively written and moving account of one of his trips, a journey made in 1939 to remote, and at that time unmapped, Nueltin Lake. Downes records a North that was soon to be no more, a landscape and communities that had experienced little contact with European settlers. Downes describes the excitement of wilderness canoe travel, the delights of discovering the land, and his deep feeling for the people he met along the way. His respect for the First Nations and their ways of life, as well as his love of their land, shine through this richly descriptive work., In an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands., In an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands. Sleeping Island is the sensitively written and moving account of one of his trips, a journey made in 1939 to remote, and at that time unmapped, Nueltin Lake. In Sleeping Island, Downes records a North that was soon to be no more, a landscape and a people barely touched by white men. Downes describes the excitement of wilderness canoe travel, the delights of discovering the land, and his deep feeling for people met along the way. His respect for the Indians and the Inuit and their ways of life, and his love of their land, shine through this richly descriptive work.