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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Castner, Brian.     Subjects     Castner, Brian -- Travel -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River.     Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820 -- Travel -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River.     Canoes and canoeing -- Northwest Territories -- MacKenzie River.     Mackenzie River (N.W.T.) -- Description and travel.     Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.     Northwest Passage -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Castner, Brian.       by title:      Disappointment River...       by call number:      LP 917.193 C353d     Search the Web     Castner, Brian.     Castner, Brian -- Travel -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River.     Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820 -- Travel -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River.     Canoes and canoeing -- Northwest Territories -- MacKenzie River.     Mackenzie River (N.W.T.) -- Description and travel.     Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.     Northwest Passage -- Description and travel.       MARC Display

Disappointment River : finding and losing the Northwest Passage / Brian Castner. by Castner, Brian. Random House Large Print, 2018. Call #: LP 917.193 C353d Subjects Castner, Brian -- Travel -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River.   Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820 -- Travel -- Northwest Territories -- Mackenzie River.   Canoes and canoeing -- Northwest Territories -- MacKenzie River.   Mackenzie River (N.W.T.) -- Description and travel.   Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration.   Northwest Passage -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9780525595373 (pbk.) Alternate title:  Finding and losing the Northwest Passage Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  624 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. In 2016, Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey, in search of Mackenzie's Passage 200 years later. A historical narrative and travel memoir that transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides. Brian Castner retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, and he personally retraces those travels in an 1,125-mile canoe voyage down the river that bears his name, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. A world rarely glimpsed in the media. Tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that has the potential of becoming a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money. Brian Castner is a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer. He is the author of The Long Walk (2012) and All the Ways We Kill and Die (2016). He lives in Buffalo, New York"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 917.193 C353d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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