Death on the barrens : a true story of courage and tragedy in the Canadian Arctic

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Title:

Death on the barrens : a true story of courage and tragedy in the Canadian Arctic

Author:

Grinnell, George James, 1933-

Personal Author:

Grinnell, George James, 1933-

Publication Information:

Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, [2010]

Physical Description:

xiii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Summary:

"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.

Language:

English

Contents:

The Mounties -- Embarkation -- Art Moffatt -- The first sugar dispute -- Panic -- The broken teacup -- The United Bowmen's Association -- Separate ways -- The second sugar dispute -- The ceremony of innocence is drowned -- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed -- Caribou -- Tundra time -- The widening gyre -- His hour come round at last -- I was the river -- On his own -- The garbage dump -- Blizzard -- Death on the barrens -- Our new leader -- The last farewell -- Inuit -- Flies of the lord -- The longer pilgrimage -- Gratitude.

Personal Subject:

Grinnell, George James, 1933- -Travel-Canada, Northern.

Subject Term:

Canoes and canoeing -- Canada, Northern -- History -- 20th century.

Wilderness areas -- Canada, Northern -- History -- 20th century.

Wilderness survival -- Canada, Northern -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Canada, Northern -- Description and travel.

Arctic regions -- Description and travel.

Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel.

ISBN:

9781556438820