Cold Summer Wind

This true-life adventure story, set in the wilds of Canada’s Northwest Territories, is the narrative of a father and son team who have canoed more than 3,000 miles above the sixtieth parallel.

Cold Summer Wind takes the reader down three of the major rivers of Canada’s vast barren lands –
- The entire 920 miles of the Kazan River system from Snowbird Lake to Baker Lake, then out through Chesterfield Inlet into Hudson Bay.
- The Elk River and the Thelon River, through the heart of the Thelon Game Sanctuary
- The wild and seldom-traveled Back River, from Muskox Rapids to within ninety miles of Chantrey Inlet on the Arctic Ocean, in the land of the midnight sun.

This is an action book! And action the Kleins had, shooting through boiling rapids and swirling white water, or while bucking high seas on some of the larger lakes.

In Cold Summer Wind, the author shares the sights and sounds, the excitement, the danger…and the unforgettable slendor of Canada’s far north:
- The phenomenon of mirages and the Ross Light
- The migrations of the Barren Lands caribou
- The Barren Ground grizzly
- Tundra wolves
- Muskoxen
- Chesterfield Inlet tides
- Ferocious insects
- Caught in a whirlpool
- The Old North Trail
- The King of the Barrens
- Flora and fauna
- The Legendary John Hornby
- Missionary of the Barrens, Joseph Buliard, O.M.I.

Clayton Klein lives on a farm near Fowlerville, Michigan, in the house where he was born in 1919. He is a part of the Fowlerville business community, having founded the Klein Fertilzer Company in 1951. He served as its general manager and president for thirty years.

He is a member of the American Canoe Association, the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association, the Audubon Society, as well as several other groups and organizations.

An avid hiker, he has walked more than a thousand miles per year for the past fifteen years, and more than twelve hundred miles each year since 1976. He is an active outdoorsman who enjoys canoeing, exploration and writing.

Darrell Klein, the author’s son, is also an active outdoorsman who canoes, golfs, hunts with bow and arrow, and spends a lot of time with his family. He is now the president and general manager of the family fertilizer business with its four locations in Michigan’s lower peninsula.