This narrative goes beyond a mere chronicling of miles traveled, of deep-winter hardships, of whitewater challenges and wildlife confrontations. Paralleling the day-by-day account of their wilderness odyssey is the theme of introspective journeying and self-discovery.

Alan Kesselheim and Marypat Zitzer spent 416 days traveling by canoe through Canada's northern wilderness, from Jasper to the Inuit settlement of Baker Lake, Northwest Territories. This is the story of their moments of sobering danger, breath-taking beauty and exhilarating whitewater travel.

-- from the back of the book