Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson
One of the great wilderness adventures of the last century.
Great Heart
Summary
In July 1903, Leonidas Hubbard set out to explore the uncharted interior of Labrador by canoe, accompanied by Dillon Wallace. Bad luck and bad judgment led the expedition into disaster. Reconstructing the story from the long-lost journals and diaries of the 1903 and 1905 expeditions, this book traces the explorers' routes.
Great Heart Summary
Great Heart Reviews
"Astonishing adventure ... that combines the grace of fiction with the power of history." The New York Times Book Review "What a movie this book would make ... a literary adventure like no other." The Globe and Mail "A cross-cutting narrative Hitchcock would have admired." Washington Post
About James West Davidson
James West Davidson is a historian living in the Hudson Valley, New York. He is the co-author of American Nation and The Art of Historical Detection. John Rugge is a physician living in the Adirondacks. They are the authors of The Complete Wilderness Pa
Additional information
GOR010602612
9780773530751
0773530754
Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
McGill-Queen's University Press
2006-05-11
416
N/A
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