Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

â€œMasterful.â€

Disappointment RiverÂ is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides in an attempt to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named â€œDisappointment.â€ Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong.

In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white-water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide-open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money. What he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.
Country USA
Brand Anchor
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2019-02-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101973165

Country	USA
Brand	Anchor
Manufacturer	Anchor
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2019-02-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101973165

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

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