Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens (Second Edition)
by P.G. Downes
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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. 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Nonfiction, Travel, Biography & Memoir, Sports and Leisure, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 917.127 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in North America Canada Prairie provinces Manitoba
- LCC
- F1060.9 .D745 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Canada Canadian Northwest. Northwest Territories
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