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Sleeping Island
P. G. Downes
其他書名
The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North
出版Heron Dance Press, 2004
主題Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / CanoeingTravel / Canada / Northern Territories (NT, NU, YT)Travel / Essays & TraveloguesTravel / Reference
ISBN09755649439780975564943
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BiYrckRSZ6sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands. Sleeping Island is the sensitively written and moving account of one of his trips, a journey made in 1939 to remote, and at that time unmapped, Nueltin Lake. In Sleeping Island, Downes records a North that was soon to be no more, a landscape and a people barely touched by white men. Downes describes the excitement of wilderness canoe travel, the delights of discovering the land, and his deep feeling for people met along the way. His respect for the Indians and the Inuit and their ways of life, and his love of their land, shine through this richly descriptive work.