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Death on the Barrens

a True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic
Jul 07, 2011Winnipeg1 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
True story of an adventure and tragedy that take place in Canada - all participants are American. So not really a Canadian book. That being said, the book is a poignant story about young men looking for 'adventure', all fuelled by myths about 'manliness'. The trip is clearly doomed from the start. The trip takes place in 1955, the book is written about 40 years later; the author is obviously haunted by the events of the ill-fated trip down an Artic riiver. Evocative, sad, thoughtfully written. Well worth a read.