Death on the Barrens : A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic (Paperback)

from themagiciansgirl

In A Death on the Barrens, wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt recruits five men to accompany him on a journey through the Barrens of Canada. He has planned successful trips before, but from the beginning this adventure seems headed for ruin. There are ongoing issues with leadership, provisions and t...

from pandorasmuse

A fantastic book, especially for those who are interested in wilderness travel. George Grinnell doesn't shrink from describing his party's strong points, as well as their weak ones. No one is idolized, no one is vilified--he pains a very believable portrait of what he and the five others in his g...

from jnavia

In the last chapter of this book, George Grinnell says that it has taken him 49 years to write this account of the trek through the Canadian barrens he took in his youth, in the summer of 1955. He wrote and rewrote the book, getting rejections from several different publishers, until he got it ri...

from Librtea

A Death on the Barrens is George Grinnell's account of the ill-fated three month canoe trip he and five others undertook into the Barrens of northern Canada in 1955. Written after fifty years of reflection and introspection, Grinnell tells his story honestly and straightforwardly, yet somehow sen...

from acook

As a fan of stories of survival, I was excited to receive an early reviewer's copy of A Death on the Barrens. The incident the story tells of took place in 1955, but is no less gripping, perhaps more so, since there were fewer modern means of communication then. The six young men took off on a ca...