Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book
來源：香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk takes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy,
redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell was
one of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led by
experienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt. Poorly planned and
executed, the journey seemed doomed from the start. Ignoring the
approaching winter, the men became entranced with the peace and
beauty of the arctic in autumn. As winter closed in, they suddenly
faced numbing cold and dwindling food. When the crew is swept over
a waterfall, Moffatt is killed and most of the gear and emergency
food supplies destroyed. Confronting freezing conditions and near
starvation, the remaining crew struggled to make it back to
civilization. For Grinnell, the three-month expedition was both a
rite of passage and a spiritual odyssey. In the Barrens, he lost
his sense of identity and what he had been conditioned to think
about society and himself. Forever changed by the experience, he
unsparingly describes how the expedition influenced his adult life
and what powerful insights he was able to glean from this
life-altering experience.
關於作者：
George Grinnell taught the history of science and intellectual
history at McMaster University in Ontario from 1967 to 1991. He
currently teaches meditation classes and lives in Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia. Artist Roderick MacIver is the founder of Heron Dance, a
nonprofit organization that celebrates the human connection to
nature through art and words.
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