Skip to content

Sleeping Island The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Sleeping Island The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North Paperback - 2004

by Prentice G Downes


From the publisher

In an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously inaccessible regions of the Canadian North, Prentice G. Downes, a graduate of Harvard who worked as a schoolteacher just outside Boston, chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands. Sleeping Island is the sensitively written and moving account of one of his trips, a journey made in 1939 to remote, and at that time unmapped, Nueltin Lake. In Sleeping Island, Downes records a North that was soon to be no more, a landscape and a people barely touched by white men. Downes describes the excitement of wilderness canoe travel, the delights of discovering the land, and his deep feeling for people met along the way. His respect for the Indians and the Inuit and their ways of life, and his love of their land, shine through this richly descriptive work.

Details

  • Title Sleeping Island The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North
  • Author Prentice G Downes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Heron Dance 2004
  • Pages 324
  • Publisher Heron Dance Press, N. Ferrisburg, VT
  • Date December 1, 2004
  • ISBN 9780975564943
Back to Top

More Copies for Sale

Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North...
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North (First Edition)

by Prentice G Downes; Editor-Robert Cockburn

  • Used
  • good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780975564943 / 0975564943
Quantity Available
1
Seller
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
€28.16
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Heron Dance Press, 2004-12-01. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
€28.16
FREE shipping to USA