| Title | : | True North: Reflections of the Wilderness (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Elliott Merrick |
| Release | : | 2024-08-22 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Travel & Adventure |
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| 1 | True North: Reflections of the Wildernes | Elliott Merrick |
| A young urban professional escapes the rat-race of the city for a life in the northern wilderness. Elliot met his wife Kay in a remote Hudson Bay Post in the northern wilderness of Labrador. She had come as he had; to escape the stress, struggles, and hypocrisy of the “civilized” life. She was a nurse there and he became a teacher. But life at a remote wilderness post wasn’t remote enough.... For several winters the couple had watched the numerous trappers pull out for their winter — destined for their wilderness traplines, canoe and dog sled overflowing with provisions — and longed to go with them. Then, one of the trappers, a devil-may-care young Hercules named John Michelin, agreed to take the adventurous couple with him the 350 miles up Grand River. To spend the winter with him for the long-lonely winter months on his traplines. True North is the story of their trip. The beauty of the wilderness, the hardships of the northern winters, the near-death struggles, the ingenuity and craft of the true wilderness trapper, the sociology of the northern people, and the beauty and joy of it all; related within this audiobook as Thoreau or Muir would. With the point of view an educated professional within the time-machine of the wilderness, Elliott and Kay were given a glimpse of the North that few have seen, fewer still have written about, and none so well. Enjoy, as True North is a time-machine in itself. |
