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Death on the barrens [electronic resource] : a true story of courage and tragedy in the Canadian Arctic / George Grinnell.

Grinnell, George James, 1933- (Author).

Summary:

"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781556439797 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1556439792 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, c2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The Mounties -- Embarkation -- Art Moffatt -- The first sugar dispute -- Panic -- The broken teacup -- The United Bowmen's Association -- Separate ways -- The second sugar dispute -- The ceremony of innocence is drowned -- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed -- Caribou -- Tundra time -- The widening gyre -- His hour come round at last -- I was the river -- On his own -- The garbage dump -- Blizzard -- Death on the barrens -- Our new leader -- The last farewell -- Inuit -- Flies of the lord -- The longer pilgrimage -- Gratitude.