In 1955, five men in their early twenties set off with 36-year-old Art Moffat on a canoe trip through Canada's arctic. The group was unprepared for the cold. They ran out of food and winter closed in. Then the group inadvertently went over a waterfall and the leader. Art Moffat died of hypothermia. One of the young men on the trip, George Grinnell, has worked on his account of the journey for fifty years. It is a powerful book of survival and awakening - a physical and spiritual odyssey. A Death on the Barrens, was ...
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In 1955, five men in their early twenties set off with 36-year-old Art Moffat on a canoe trip through Canada's arctic. The group was unprepared for the cold. They ran out of food and winter closed in. Then the group inadvertently went over a waterfall and the leader. Art Moffat died of hypothermia. One of the young men on the trip, George Grinnell, has worked on his account of the journey for fifty years. It is a powerful book of survival and awakening - a physical and spiritual odyssey. A Death on the Barrens, was originally published in 1996. This revised Heron Dance Press edition contains Roderick MacIver watercolors.
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Good. Northern Books, 1996, Signed trade paperback, tight and square, light wear, owners stamp and gift inscription on end paper, free end paper may have been removed.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR George James Grinnell on title page. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR OF THE INTRODUCTION on title page. A very good copy with slight wear. B/W Photographs.
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This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.
I was very disappointed in this book. Basically, the men went off on an adventure ill prepared for what could have reasonably been expected to happen. They are lucky they didn't all die. The illustrations were beautiful but that doesn't justify the text.