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Exploring the Great Wilderness by Bush Plane More than a non-fiction travelogue, True North tells tales of John Hornby, the man who starved to death in the game sanctuary he fought to create, of a con-man extraordinaire named Soapy Smith, of unscrupulous missionaries, of life at early Hudson's Bay Company posts, and of the new Mother Lode of the North - diamonds. With tributes to the science that makes his flight and all of our comforts possible, the author communes with the fireside skull of "Unok" under flaring northern lights, illuminates plate tectonics at Great Slave Lake's McDonald fault - and twice almost loses his life. Following a course determined by weather and whim, Erickson damns wasteful habits that denude British Columbia forests, visits the troubled Sekani Indian settlement of Fort Ware, B.C., and returns to the 1898 Gold Rush at Dyea's Chilkoot Pass. Amidst an eclectic mix of engine failures, erotica, history, humor and mountain Shangrilas, he kneels on a Great Slave Lake shoreline composed of the organisms that filled our skies with oxygen and breathed us into life. Over-flying forest fires, he camps beside a tangle of rusting snares that liberate boyhood memories of death and grief. A blend of stunning landscapes, wildlife, myths and personal experience, True North reveals the author's love of nature and his passion for truth.
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The author, like most of us, is currently staying home and quaranteening from COVID, and looking for something exciting to read. After recommending his first book, True North, to his friends, he decided to make the book available in .pdf format to everyone. So click anywhere in this notice to download the book, along with many pictures, and enjoy the thrill of exploring the far north country. |
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