Discovering Eden
A Life Time of Paddling the Arctic Rivers
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2003
- Category
- Territories & Nunavut, General, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552632215
- Publish Date
- Aug 2003
- List Price
- $27.95
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Boldly go where few have gone before! Endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund. Features 26 colour and black-and-white photographs and maps. "The Power of the Barren Lands may be beyond words but you won?t come any closer than those on the following pages?" “MONTE HUMMEL West of Hudson Bay in Canada's north, an enormous triangle, twice the size of Alberta or Texas, forms the largest chunk of wilderness left on the continent. The word "tundra" may conjure up an image of a desolate, treeless plain, but this mainland portion of the Canadian arctic is far from featureless. The area is home to millions of geese and other birds, and is the haunt of some of the world's last, great migratory herds of large herbivores and the predators that follow them. Discovering Eden is a collection of stories, essays and commentaries about the author's life in the remote wilderness and his hopes and dreams for its future. It is about the land and the animals that live there, and what they have taught the author. Throughout the book the author tries to explain, within the limitations of language, the lure of the Barren Lands and why this place became for him a personal Eden. The book also recounts adventures?a personal, inner one for the author, and the thrill of canoeing this untouched wilderness for those who travel with him on his tours.(September 2003)