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Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By Shoalts, Adam
- ISBN
- 9780735236837 9780735236844
- Publisher
- Allen Lane: Penguin
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Reviewed on September 13, 2019 | Science & Technology
To mark his country's 150th anniversary in 2017, Shoalts, "Canada's Indiana Jones," had an ambitious plan to cross the Arctic solo, heading west to east, from the Yukon to Nunavut, distance of some 2,500 miles, or 4,000 kilometers. It takes him four months, with many 13-hour days in his canoe, paddling the powerful Mackenzie River upstream, using a pole to push his canoe through the ice on Great Bear Lake, portaging for miles at...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
