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Format:
Book
Title:
Death on the barrens : a true story of courage and tragedy in the Canadian Arctic
ISBN:
9781556438820
Publication Information:
Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, ©2010.
Physical Description:
xiii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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.
Summary:
"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.
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