Barren Grounds : The Story of the Tragic Moffatt Canoe Trip (Hardcover)

from streamsong

In 1955, cinematographer and experienced canoeist Art Moffatt decided to follow the canoe route of Joseph Burr Tyrell's 1893 canoe exploration across the Canadian Barrens from Lake Athabasca in northern Saskatchewan to Nunavet's Baker Lake and ultimately the Hudson Bay. Besides doing the journey ...

from BradKautz

Barren Grounds is the story of a canoe expedition in 1955, where six men attempted to travel a route through the Canadian Barrens that only been done once before, in 1893. It is told primarily from the journals of two of the expedition members, Fred Pessl and Peter Franck. I had never heard of th...

from mstrust

A recounting of an infamous 1950's canoe trip that ended in the death of its leader. Art Moffatt was an experienced canoer and outdoorsman who wanted to make a nature film along Canada's Dubawnt River. He gathered fellow canoers, hikers and an ex-Army man for a total of six young men, almost all ...

from IsolaBlue

Skip Pessl is a good writer. He was in the 1950s when he kept a journal during the canoe trip he took with five other men tracing the path of the original Tyrell expedition, and he is now as an elderly man looking back at the past. The seven-page preface to BARREN GROUNDS is actually more grippin...

from lisa.schureman

The story of a group attempting to follow the route of Tyrrell's 1893 expedition as told through the diaries of two of the men who took part in the trip in all its beauty, harshness, mosquitos, black flies, cold and hazards that finally took the life of the group's leader. The author feels that w...