True North

Reflections of the Wilderness

De: Elliott Merrick

Narrado por: Lyle Blaker

A young urban professional escapes the rat-race of the city for a life in the northern wilderness.

Elliot met his wife Kay in a remote Hudson Bay Post in the northern wilderness of Labrador. She had come as he had; to escape the stress, struggles, and hypocrisy of the “civilized” life. She was a nurse there and he became a teacher. But life at a remote wilderness post wasn’t remote enough....

For several winters the couple had watched the numerous trappers pull out for their winter — destined for their wilderness traplines, canoe and dog sled overflowing with provisions — and longed to go with them.

Then, one of the trappers, a devil-may-care young Hercules named John Michelin, agreed to take the adventurous couple with him the 350 miles up Grand River. To spend the winter with him for the long-lonely winter months on his traplines. True North is the story of their trip.

The beauty of the wilderness, the hardships of the northern winters, the near-death struggles, the ingenuity and craft of the true wilderness trapper, the sociology of the northern people, and the beauty and joy of it all; related within this audiobook as Thoreau or Muir would.

With the point of view an educated professional within the time-machine of the wilderness, Elliott and Kay were given a glimpse of the North that few have seen, fewer still have written about, and none so well.

Enjoy, as True North is a time-machine in itself.

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TRUE ADVENTURE IN THE NORTH

How very cold it was there...!

I greatly enjoyed and highly recommend this book of a several month-long journey in the northern wildernesses of Labrador.

I consider this book as one of the best I have read as it tells the story of a group of people who were unable to tell the story themselves. Although the author and his wife were greenhorns unaccustomed to the ways of the wilderness (Author accidentally shoots himself and about chops his foot off with axe) the men that they traveled with were the epitome of wilderness experts. The trappers humor, philosophies, wilderness craft, stories of wilderness and animals and all-around fortitude ring true with someone who has spent many years in the bush himself.

The author was well educated and eloquently writes all of the stories and adventures of their extreme journey and the stories of their companions. He was able travel the 300 plus brutal miles up the grand river by canoe, and the 300 plus brutal miles back down the frozen river as well as the months of wilderness living. Lyle Blaker does a great job with the narration and makes a great story come to life.

Did I mention the cold?!?

Highly Recommended!!!