| Most of the following books should be readily available in the UK,
US or Canada. We have given publishers for each title in the form UK/US
publisher, unless the book is published in one country only; o/p means
out of print. Note that virtually all the listed books published in the
US will be stocked by major Canadian bookshops; we've indicated those
books published only in Canada
Hugh Brody Maps and Dreams (Faber/Waveland; both o/p). Brilliantly
written account of the lives and lands of the Beaver natives of
northwest Canada. For further acute insights into the ways of the far
north see also the same author's Living Arctic (Faber, o/p/University of
Washington Press) and The People's Land: Eskimos and Whites in the
Eastern Arctic (Douglas & McIntyre, US, o/p).
P. Browning The Last Wilderness (Hutchinson/Great West Books, o/p). An
engrossing description of a harsh and lonely canoe journey through the
Northwest Territories.
Ranulph Fiennes The Headless Valley (Hodder & Stoughton, UK, o/p). Tales
of derring-do from noted adventurer, white-water rafting down the South
Nahanni and Fraser rivers of British Columbia and the old NWT.
Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern
Landscape (Picador/Bantam). Extraordinary, award-winning book combining
natural history, physics, poetry, earth sciences and philosophy in a
dazzling portrait of the far north.
David McFadden Trip Around Lake Ontario (Coach House Press, 1988;
reprinted in Great Lakes Suite/Talon Books). Part of a trilogy detailing
the author's circumnavigation of lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron written
in a deceptively simple style.
Gary and Joannie McGuffin Canoeing Across Canada (Diadem, UK, o/p).
Reflections on a 6000-mile journey through the country's rivers and
backwaters.
Susanna Moodie Roughing It in the Bush: or Forest Life in Canada
(McClelland & Stewart). Wonderful narrative written in 1852, describing
an English couple's slow ruin as they attempt to create a new life in
southeastern Ontario.
Jan Morris O Canada: Travels in an Unknown Country (Robert Hale,
o/p/HarperCollins, o/p) Musings from this well-known travel writer after
a coast-to-coast Canadian trip.
Duncan Pryde Nununga: Ten Years of Eskimo Life (Eland/Hippocrene). Less
a travel book than a social document from a Glaswegian who left home at
eighteen to spend ten years with the Inuit.
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