Bøger om Northwest Territories

Vildmarksklassikeren AFSTED handler om skov, flod og stilhed, jagtmarker og fiskevande, eventyrlyst og naturglæde. Og om at tage afsted, gøre det man har lyst til og leve livet, mens man har det. Det er beretningen om to unge danskere, udstyret med med det, der er plads til i en kano - og omgivet af tusinder kvadratkilometer canadisk vildmark. Det er en bog om at være alene - og om, hvad der kan ske - midt i en stor natur, uden kontakt med omverdenen. - Jeg ville ud i en ren og vild natur, ud og høre stilhedens sang, tænke klare, rene tanker, være tæt på alting og mærke sundhed i hjertet...Pressen skrev:"Bogen er elementært spændende og giver også en fin beskrivelse af den storslåede canadiske natur." / Kristeligt Dagblad"Bogen giver en forståelse af den urgamle drivkraft, som kan få mennesker til at foretage sig ting, der bringer både livet og døden ind på helt tæt hold." / JyllandsPosten"Det er en spændende, dramatisk og flot bog. Oplagt til gavebrug. For alle som drømmer om vildmarksliv må det være en ønskebog." / BTBogen er rigt illustreret med farvefotos.

Join renowned adventurer Frank Wolf on a gripping and epic journey through Canada's unforgiving northern wilderness.Renowned adventurer Frank Wolf annually embarks on a series of long-distance wilderness journeys. A little while back, he attempted a 280 km ski journey across Baffin Island, a 1750 km canoe trip through the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and a 550 km ski retracing of the 1854 expedition of legendary explorer John Rae, all in less than a year.Moving through rugged landscapes, across 6000-foot-high glaciers, and down wild tundra rivers, each of these epic excursions took place with different teams of people brought together to complete challenging missions in some of the most unforgiving environments on the planet.Beyond the sordid tales of adventure, we're also given a window into the displaced time between Wolf's primordial wanderings, revealing that his remote explorations, though arduous and uncomfortable, are easier for the wanderer than the fallow times. The inner adventure bouncing around in Wolf's head during these periods is often wilder than the obstacles he faces in the hinterlands of Canada as he copes with being a misfit in the modern world.

An intriguing look at the connections between Alberta premier Peter Lougheed and his Métis grandmother, Isabella Clarke Hardisty Lougheed, exploring how Métis identity, political activism, and colonial institutional power shaped the lives and legacies of both.

"A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism"--

Born in Manitoba of Icelandic parents, Vilhjalmur Stefansson (18791962) became one of Canada's most famous and controversial Arctic explorers. After graduate studies in anthropology at Harvard University, Stefansson lived with and studied Inuit in the