Paddling the Boreal Forest: Rediscovering A.P. LowDundurn, 29 նոյ, 2004 թ. - 319 էջ The boreal forest of Quebec/Labrador -- some of the most rugged and isolated land in Canada -- has captivated avid canoeists for generations. In the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, the intrepid A.P. Low of the Geological Survey of Canada spent, in total, more than ten years of his working life surveying the area. Employing Aboriginal canoemen and guides, he travelled by canoe, snowshoe and sailing vessel to map and document much of this vast territory. Challenged by the mystique of this extraordinary Canadian, canoeists Max Finkelstein and James Stone retraced Low's routes -- by their admission, their toughest canoe trip ever! Using archival sources, oral history and personal experience, they tell the story of A.P. Low and, in the process, reveal the environmental issues now facing this much threatened Canadian wilderness. "Once again Max Finkelstein has blessed us with his incredible ability to make history of exploration come alive. Rather than sit behind a desk and try to imagine the 'misadventures' Low would have had, he goes out and duplicates them, and along the way creates a few tales of his own. This is one great read and we should be thankful that people like Max and Jim Stone exist in this world of ours." "From A.P. Low's logs and reports, Max Finkelstein and Jim Stone give vitality to that great geological surveyor. Interspersed are vivid accounts of their own challenging canoe voyages on the same rivers and portages of the boreal forest and rock in the James Bay/Ungava/Labrador country of the Cree, Innu and Inuit. What emerges is an eloquent testimonial for the wilderness canoe trip in the Canadian experience." |
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... covered forest for most of their trips . They were both plagued by the ubiquitous and infa- mous bugs , samples of which must surely be found squashed on each page of their respective journals . They were both following old trails that ...
... covered boulders , as Jim wades slowly uphill through waist - high wet Labrador tea , bent under the food pack we are carrying for our six - week trip . Halfway across Long Portage , we collapse , exhausted , at the point where the ...
... covered with 1 : 250,000 scale topographic maps . " Jim , " I said , bewildered by the array of information , " we'll never find our way through this country . It's a maze , and everything looks just the same . " By then I had been ...
... covered with earth was seen ... Adjoining this is a small burying place with a large wooden cross in its center ... covering over seven miles , and more than a dozen lakes , before rejoining the river below the falls via a precipitous ...
... covered by Low on this expedition would defy credulity if it were not described with such detail and authority . The standard of what was normal in his world of exploration eclipses any current standard of wilder- ness tripping ... His ...