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Alone against the north : an expedition into the unknown
- Title
- Alone against the north : an expedition into the unknown / Adam Shoalts.
- Author
- Shoalts, Adam, 1986-
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Viking, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- 296 pages : map; 24 cm
- Summary
- Alone Against the North. But what does exploration mean in an age when satellite imagery of even the remotest corner of the planet is available to anyone with a phone? Is there anything left to explore? What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned "Canada's Indiana Jones" and appeared on morning television. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts's proof that the world is bigger than we think. Shoalts's story makes it clear that the world can become known only by getting out of our cars and armchairs, and setting out into the unknown, where every step is different from the one before, and something you may never have imagined lies around the next curve in the river.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Introduction -- The start of an obsession -- Plans and preparations -- Into the wild -- Downriver -- Hudson Bay -- Alone -- Nameless River -- Back to the coast -- New horizons -- Trailblazing -- River of mystery -- Adrift -- Changing the map -- End of a Journey -- Afterword -- Addendum.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4077
- ISBN
- 9780670069453
- 0670069450
- OCLC
- 903422830
- Author
- Shoalts, Adam, 1986- author.
- Title
- Alone against the north : an expedition into the unknown / Adam Shoalts.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Viking, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Local Note
- PERSONAL TRAVEL NARRATIVE.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4077