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A Death on the Barrens

by George Grinnell.

 

2nd edition, revised. North Ferrisburg (USA), Heron Dance Press, 2oo5.

 

196 pp/194 printed, offset. 6-1/4 x 9, perfectbound wrappers.

 

nonfiction, with no less than 5o watercolour illuss.by Roderick MacIver & 8 photographs (most from Sports Illustrated 1959). an account of the first unguided expedition to follow Samuel Hearne's 1772 route along the Dubawnt River through The Barrens, this 1955 canoe trip ended in tragedy. massively revised from its 1996 publication by Northern Books in Toronto (which initial publication is barely acknowledged).

 

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