[PDF.16dz] Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens (Second Edition)

Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens (Second Edition)

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 | #1851928 in Books |  2006-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.00 x.65 x9.00l,.84 | File type: PDF | 268 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A beautiful account of discovery in "The North" decades ago|By Ellen M Lovell|A beautiful account of discovery in "The North" decades ago, when Downes traveled where few had ventured and observed early interactions between Indians and white outposts. He was a keen observer and writer; although some of his comments about the "natives" at that time may sound dated, he viewed them|About the Author||Prentice G. “Spike” Downes (1909–1959) was an American school teacher and author, who travelled by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands and learn the ways of the Cree and Dene people. Downes’ journals record a disappe

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. Downes records a North that was s...

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