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." |
From inside the book
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... winter.38 By mid - February , plans for Young had indeed changed and he was sent with Jim Schupe , the carpenter from the Alle , and two Inuit to make a micrometer survey along the coast from the Great Whale River post to the Fort ...
... winter , Low had formed a good idea of the terrain of the interior , based mostly on evidence he had collected from the Inuit , the people who lived and hunted there . Of equal impor- tance , while the large deposits of iron were ...
... winter of 1899-1900 , Low prepared his report . He developed two main conclusions about the glacial history in the region . The first was that the different directions of glacial striae meant that the centre of glaciation had moved ...
... winter , by snowshoe and sled . Neil writes : while ... we both carried our canoes on sleds ... made mul- tiple trips over the same ground , and relied on similar Contents Acknowledgements / vii Foreword by Becky Mason / ix 20 PADDLING ...
... winter of 2001 if I would like to retrace Albert Peter Low's routes across Quebec , I replied , " Who the heck is A.P. Low ? " I didn't know then that I was about to embark on a journey of dis- covery that would take me back in time ...