The age of exploration is not over. Adam Shoalts was no stranger to the wilderness. He had hacked his way through jungles and, had stared down polar bears and climbed mountains. But one spot on the map called out to him irresistibly: the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a trackless expanse of muskeg —an Amazon of the north. Cutting through this forbidding landscape is a river no explorer, trapper, or canoeist had left any record of paddling. It was this river that Shoalts was obsessively determined to explore. As Shoalts paddled downriver, he discovered a series of uncharted waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned “Canada’s Indiana Jones”  and was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts’s proof that the world is bigger than we think. Gripping and often poetic, Alone Against the North is a classic adventure story of single-minded obssession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common. Shoalts's story makes it clear that the world can become known only by getting out of our cars and armchairs, and setting out into the unknown, where every step is different from the one before, and something you may never have imagined lies around the next curve in the river.

Auteur

Adam Shoalts

Éditeur

Penguin

ISBN

9780143193975

Année de publication

2024

Catégorie

Biographie/Fait vécu

Nombre de pages

296

Condition

Très bon état