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Canada, Please Let Dick North finish his quest
Awesome read, very well written with plenty of facts to back up Mr. North's work. You appreciate his passion for a definitive answer to who A.Johnson truely was. It is sad that the Canadian's refused to solve the mystery. Nevertheless, I am one of the believer's John Johnson was the Mad Trapper.

Where' the justice?
Thes is a very interesting story.It is well written and well researched.It was also done by Rudy Weibe and Thomas P.Kelley. Rat River Trapper: Mad or Misanthropic?
It was a bitterly cold December 26, 1931 when four members of the RCMP approached the small cabin of a mysterious trapper named Albert Johnson. There sole intent was to question Johnson about a complaint made by a neighbouring trapper concerning traps that had been tampered with. But without a word, the trapper fired upon the constables, injuring one. Shortly thereafter, Johnson had disappeared into the bush, thus instigating an epic manhunt that would last close to fifty days, and span some 150 miles.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Criminals    3. General    4. Johnson, Albert,    5. Murder - General    6. Northwest Territories    7. Trappers    8. True Crime    9. True Crime / Espionage    10. d. 1932    11. True Crime / Murder   

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Pitseolak: Pictures out of My Life
If you are interested in trying to understand the Inuit sensibility this is a great read. Pitseolak became an artist, drawing pictures of her life, when she was in her fifties, gaining international recognition. Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Artistes    4. Baffin Island    5. Biographies    6. Biography    7. Canada    8. Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies    9. General    10. Inuit art    11. Inuit artists    12. Nunavut    13. Pitseolak    14. Biography: general    15. Individual artists   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867)    5. Canada - Territories & Nunavut    6. Ethnologists    7. Frontier and pioneer life    8. Historical - General    9. Mackenzie    10. Northwest Territories    11. Personal Memoirs    12. Pioneers    13. Travel    14. Travel - Foreign    15. Arctic regions    16. Geographical discovery & exploration   

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Dissapointing
Ordered this because it was suggested by Amazon as a book that might be of interest. This because I am so very fond of David Petersen's writing. Kerasote can't hold a candle to Petersen! He does not enlarge his subject to include any of the larger insights or issues, of which there are many imbedded in the subject of man and nature. From Melville to Petersen, we have struggled to describe and comprehend our relationship to society and nature. Kerasote adds little to the discussion.

Sometimes we need to be wired
Enjoyed this great little book as I always do Kerasote's writing.I wanted to read it because he had written an article in an outdoor magazine 15 years ago on "Camping Beyond Aid" and I wanted to compare his thoughts then and now.
Brilliant Outdoor Writing
This book was the first time I have read Kerasote - I completed it in two sessions.I thought it was brilliantly written.It had an educated style, which means I enjoyed occasionally checking some less common words (but cleverly appropriate)in my dictionary.This was an enthralling account of two basically dissimilar friends undertaking a great canoe trip down the Horton River toward the Arctic Ocean.I just wasn't willing to put the book down until the trip was over - the reader was right there with them.At one stage, I hoped for some photographs to supplement the map in the book - but then again Kerasote's writing was so good that I had a clear word picture of the events.Perhaps this was in keeping with the general theme of making do without everything on a platter?I found the historical notes provided a fascinating context for the modern day adventure.The professionalism of their outdoor skills was evident, and important for such a remote adventure.The potential 'clash' of the satphone was very much secondary to the description of the wonderful river trip itself. Actually, I thought the satphone was skillfully considered from a philosophical viewpoint - it was an issue that is very relevant now to modern mans interaction with serious wilderness adventure. This book was just brilliant stuff. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canoeing    3. Canoeists    4. Ecology    5. Essays    6. Kerasote, Ted    7. Nature    8. Northwest, Canadian    9. Outdoor Life    10. Sports    11. Sports & Recreation    12. Travel    13. United States    14. Canoeing & kayaking    15. House & Home / General    16. Northwest Territories    17. Travel writing   

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Best Of The West!
The Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, a time at the turn of the century, when the gold camps were booming and the dust flowed like wine.Leaving behind law and many of the constraints of the Post-Victorian era, men and women went north to find adventure and wealth.Most found death among the cold frozen mountains and rivers but a few survived to find money, power and, sometimes, even love.
Not Real Interesting
I was disappointed in this book, it seemed more like a history of the men of the Yukon and Gold Rush . There were some stories about some of these women in there, but they were not very interesting to me, just sort of dry and lacking the quality that you could see and picture the people-which is a quality I look for in books of a historical nature. If you like just a history of cut and dry facts about the Gold Rush and the men etc., this might be ok, but overall, the book failed to be interesting to me.

Interesting side to the "gold miners"
Well, the men mined the gold, and the women mined the miners. All had unhealthy jobs but it would appear that more womem made money than the men from this book.It is also interesting that many of the women ended their trade by marrying the miners. So while to some they were "soiled doves" to the miners they were princesses.
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Historical - General    5. History - U.S.    6. United States - 19th Century    7. United States - 19th Century/Old West    8. United States - State & Local - General    9. Women   

Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canada - General    5. History - General History    6. Women   

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Really two stories in one book.
Krajick has written one of many books detailing the hunt for diamonds in the Canadian North.Unlike several of the other writers, Krajick devoted the first part of this book to the land itself.In a fascinating historical journey readers get to follow early explorers and native inhabitants across the most unforgiving wilderness on earth, with stops in the American Southwest, Africa, and South America thrown in to heighten the story.
Fascinating
This book illuminates the possibilities of the frozen north unlike anything else I've read.
What's required to find a multi-billion dollar mine
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Subjects:  1. Arctic regions    2. Diamonds    3. Discovery and exploration    4. Expeditions & Discoveries    5. Gras, Lac de, Region    6. History - General History    7. Metallurgy    8. Mining    9. North American    10. Northwest Territories    11. Polar Regions    12. Technology    13. Travel    14. Travel / Adventure    15. Biography & Autobiography    16. Historical    17. Explorers    18. History    19. North America    20. Canada    21. Gems   

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Subjects:  1. (Robert William),    2. 1874-1958    3. 20th century    4. Authors, Canadian    5. Authors, Scottish    6. Biography    7. Biography & Autobiography    8. Biography / Autobiography    9. Biography/Autobiography    10. Canada    11. Gold discoveries    12. Historical - British    13. Klondike River Valley (Yukon)    14. Literary    15. Scots    16. Service, Robert W    17. Biography & Autobiography / Literary    18. Biography & Autobiography/Historical - General    19. Biography: historical    20. British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900    21. British & Irish history: from c 1900 -    22. Chronological Period/1851-1899    23. Cultural Region/Canadian    24. Cultural Region/Pacific Northwest    25. France    26. Geographic Orientation/Alaska    27. Geographic Orientation/Yukon    28. Gold in literature    29. Historiography    30. In literature   

Subjects:  1. 16th century    2. Baffin Island    3. Biography    4. Canada - General    5. Discovery And Exploration (General)    6. Earth Sciences - Geography    7. Europe - Great Britain - General    8. Expeditions & Discoveries    9. Explorers    10. Frobisher, Martin,    11. Gold mines and mining    12. Great Britain    13. Great Britain - History - Tudor And Stuart (1485-1714)    14. History    15. History - General History    16. History: World    17. Nunavut    18. Polar Regions    19. Science    20. Sir,    21. Travel    22. ca. 1535-1594   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Canada - General    3. Frontier and pioneer life    4. Gold discoveries    5. History - General History    6. History: American    7. Klondike River Valley    8. Klondike River Valley (Yukon)    9. Women pioneers    10. Yukon Territory    11. History    12. Technology / Mining    13. USA    14. c 1800 to c 1900   

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one of the greatest women's adventures of all time
This is one of the greatest women's adventures of all time, and for sure, one of the greatest womens memoirs of the gold rush era. Anna de Graf is a favorite of all our readers of Gold Rush Women. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1839-1930    2. Biography    3. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    4. DeGraf, Anna,    5. Frontier and pioneer life    6. General    7. History - General History    8. History - United States/State & Local    9. Juvenile Nonfiction    10. Juvenile literature    11. People & Places - Canada    12. Pioneers    13. Women pioneers    14. Yukon River Valley (Yukon and    15. Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)    16. Biography: general    17. Canada    18. DeGraf, Anna    19. USA   

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Terrible Tragedy in the North
This is an incredible tale of a Canadian Mountie patrol that disappeared in the northern wilderness under frightful freezing conditions.No one knew what really happened until the author -- many decades too late -- found the wrong turn the patrol took.You'll gain a new appreciation of the Canadian Mounties and all they stand for in North's The Lost Patrol. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Canada - General    3. Criminology    4. History    5. History: World    6. Military    7. Canada   

Subjects:  1. 1876-1934    2. Biography    3. Harmon, Byron,    4. Northwest Territories    5. Photographers    6. Photography of mountains    7. Harmon, Byron    8. North America    9. Photographs: collections   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Canada - General    5. Literary   

Subjects:  1. Baffin Island    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. General    6. Inuit    7. Native American Anthropology    8. Nunavut    9. American history: from c 1900 -    10. Biography: historical    11. Biography: political    12. Canada    13. Ethnic studies    14. Photographs: collections    15. Social history   

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Let's go north!
Rowley's fresh and colloquial style of narrative makes you feel at home inthe arctic. While you read you can feel the cold wind in your face, youhear the dogs breathing and the ice cracking and you smell the fresh winterair. You start longing for the moment when you can meet all those friendlyInuit. And when you finally get to the arctic you will see that not muchhas changed. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 18th And 19th Century Description And Travel    2. Baffin Island    3. Baffin Island (Nunavut)    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. British    6. Canada - General    7. Canada - Post-Confederation (1867-)    8. Description and travel    9. Discovery and exploration    10. Expeditions & Discoveries    11. History    12. History - General History    13. Nunavut    14. Polar Regions    15. Rowley, Graham    16. Travel    17. Arctic regions    18. History of other lands    19. Journeys   

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UNDER POLARIS, AN ARCTIC QUEST. By Tahoe Talbot Washburn. Se
This marvelous book is a blend of adventure story, scientific diary, and ethnographic study. The author, Tahoe Talbot Washburn, accompanied her husband, Lincoln Washburn, to the Canadian Arctic in 1938-1941, helping himdo his graduate field work in the glacial geology of the region. The authorwas a keen observer of native people and their way of life. She recordedwhat we now see in retrospect as the waning years of a nomadic way of lifefor the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Prior to World War II,many Inuit roamed freely across the high Arctic, camping in snow houses(igloos) constructed along the trail at the end of the day. The CanadianArctic Inuit were still essentially nomads; they did not live in or visitpermanent settlements, except for a few important events each year.Accordingly, governmental authorities and missionaries had to go onexpeditions to meet with the Inuit. Soon after the war, this patternchanged dramatically, and seemingly irrevocably,towards a more settledway of life. This book is made all the more fascinating because it providesmany glimpses into a way of life perched on the cusp of radical change.The Washburns were much more than casual visitors to the Canadian Arctic.They lived there for months at a time, including one extended stay fromAugust, 1940 to February, 1941. They spent precious little time indoors,preferring to move about the Arctic islands, hiking, boating, camping, anddog-sledding in winter. The scientific aim of this multi-year project wasto determine the extent of regional glaciation in the late Pleistocene, amuch-debated topic of that day. By collecting marine fossils and mappingtraces of glacial scouring in bedrock, Lincoln Washburn was able to beginthe process of reconstructing the extent of ice sheets during the lastglaciation. This thesis project marked the beginning of his long andillustrious career in glacial geology. However, geologic research is onlyincidental to this book. It brought the Washburns to Arctic Canada, butonce there, they fell in love with the land and its people. Both Lincolnand Tahoe relished the arduous Arctic lifestyle, where physical enduranceand mental acuity often make the difference between survival and death.They marveled at the ingenuity, patience, and sense of humor that seemed tosustain the Inuit through manifold hardships. Tahoe Washburn spent manymonths emulating the role of Inuit women, including daily food preparation(for both people and sled dogs), sewing of leather garments, and hidepreparation (including chewing caribou hides to soften them). Althoughlimited by not understanding the Inuit language, she learned byobservation. Her Native companions appreciated her efforts to follow theirways, and took the time to teach her many skills that few outsiders everlearned. The book is richly illustrated, with 107 photos and six maps.Although the material in the book was taken from diaries, it has beenwell-edited, never becoming dull or repetitive. I heartily recommend thisbook to readers interested in the natural history and ethnography of theArctic.Read more

Subjects:  1. Adventurers & Explorers    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Canada - General    4. Diaries    5. Historical - General    6. History    7. Inuit    8. King William Island    9. Native American    10. Native Americans - History    11. Nunavut    12. Social History    13. Social life and customs    14. Travel    15. Victoria Island (Nunavut and N    16. Victoria Island (Nunavut and N.W.T.)    17. Washburn, Tahoe Talbot    18. Women    19. Biography: general    20. North America    21. The Americas   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Children's 12-Up - Sociology    3. Children's Books/Young Adult People & Places    4. Children: Grades 4-6    5. Dey, Madame    6. History - Canada - General    7. Iroquois Indians    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Juvenile literature    10. Laurentian Mountains (Quebec)    11. Laurentian Mountains (Quâebec)    12. People & Places - Canada    13. People & Places - United States - Native American    14. Juvenile Nonfiction / Ethnic / Native American   

Subjects:  1. (Robert William),    2. 1874-1958    3. 20th century    4. Authors, Canadian    5. Authors, Scottish    6. Biography    7. Biography/Autobiography    8. In literature    9. Klondike River Valley (Yukon)    10. Service, Robert W    11. Service, Robert W.   

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An astounding adventure story
In 1937 one Betty Carey embarked on the ultimate adventure, rowing from Puget sound Alaska by dugout canoe but her adventure didn't end there. Her explorations of the Inside Passage and adventures with loggers, lightkeepers, fishermen, missionaries and other residents recounted in Bijaboji: North To Alaska By Oar creates an astounding adventure story armchair readers won't want to miss.
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Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Boating - General    3. Canada - Territories & Nunavut    4. Travel    5. Women    6. Alaska    7. Canoeing & kayaking    8. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    9. North Pacific    10. Travel writing