The Lure of the Labrador Wild

Wallace, Dillon; Lawrence Millman

ISBN 10: 0930031296 / ISBN 13: 9780930031299

Published by Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 1990

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Tight unmarked book in rubbed covers. ; 8 X 5.20 X 0.70 inches; 218 pages.

Seller Inventory # 42505

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lure of the Labrador Wild
• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, Halifax
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930031296
• ISBN 13: 9780930031299
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Atlantic Canada

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Synopsis

In the late spring of 1903 Leonidas Hubbard, an ambitious young writer, Dillon Wallace, a forty-year-old New York attorney, and George Elson, an Indian guide with no firsthand knowledge of their destination, set out on an adventure. Beset by delays, the men paddle past their intended route. When in early September they finally glimpse the vast waters of Michikamau from atop an unknown mountain, the cold winds have already begun. With almost no food left, the three begin a desperate struggle against starvation and the quickening pace of a cruel winter, heading homeward in a race for their lives.

From the Back Cover

The Labrador interior has long held the well-deserved reputation of being one of the most inhospitable places on earth. It is a patchwork of Canadian shield granites and sphagnum moss, labyrinthine caribou trails and desolate subarctic barrens, all set against glacier-scoured hills stretching to an apparently limitless horizon.
In the late spring of 1903, Leonidas Hubbard, a young writer, and Dillon Wallace, a forty-year-old New York attorney, set off with George Elson, a native guide with no firsthand knowledge of their destination, to explore the incompletely mapped Lake Michikamau region of interior Labrador. Beset by delays, the men paddled past their intended route, the Naskaupi River, and headed up the treacherous Susan River instead. When in early September they finally glimpsed the vast waters of Michikamau from the top of an unknown mountain, Labrador’s cold winds had begun. With scant scraps of food remaining, the three began a desperate struggle against starvation and the rapidly approaching and unforgiving winter as they raced home for their lives.