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Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Winner of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario's 2016 Young Authors Award
Winner of the 2017 Louise de Kiriline Award for Nonfiction
The age of exploration is not over.
When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he discovered surprised even him.
Shoalts was no stranger to the wilderness. He had hacked his way through jungles and swamp, had stared down polar bears and climbed mountains. But one spot on the map called out to him irresistibly: the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a trackless expanse of muskeg and lonely rivers, caribou and wolf - an Amazon of the north, parts of which to this day remain unexplored.
Cutting through this forbidding landscape is a river no explorer, trapper, or canoeist had left any record of paddling. It was this river that Shoalts was obsessively determined to explore.
It took him several attempts, and years of research. But finally, alone, he found the headwaters of the mysterious river. He believed he had discovered what he had set out to find. But the adventure had just begun. Unexpected dangers awaited him downstream.
Gripping and often poetic, Alone Against the North is a classic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common.
But what does exploration mean in an age when satellite imagery of even the remotest corner of the planet is available to anyone with a phone? Is there anything left to explore?
What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned “Canada’s Indiana Jones” and appeared on morning television. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts’s proof that the world is bigger than we think.
Shoalts’s story makes it clear that the world can become known only by getting out of our cars and armchairs, and setting out into the unknown, where every step is different from the one before, and something you may never have imagined lies around the next curve in the river.
- Listening Length8 hours and 14 minutes
- Audible release dateOctober 8, 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB07WTRQL61
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 8 hours and 14 minutes |
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Author | Adam Shoalts |
Narrator | Adam Shoalts |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | October 08, 2019 |
Publisher | Penguin Canada |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B07WTRQL61 |
Best Sellers Rank | #51,761 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #26 in Biographies of Environmentalists & Naturalists (Audible Books & Originals) #73 in Adventure Travel (Audible Books & Originals) #125 in Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Biographies |
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After reading this book you will want to get up off the couch and go do something epic too.
It is hard to fathom that man has not explored all of Canada. Lakes ,rivers, moose,elk,and polar bears all inhabit the land which the author explored.
I highly recommend this book, it will open your eyes and perhaps ignite a desire to explore .
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This book follows Adam Shoalts as he explores the insect infested, boggy lowlands off Hudson Bay, including identifying and charting a previously un-named river.
It tells of the up and downs of trying to set up an expedition, and gives some insight into the trips he used to gain experience and funding beforehand
The book is not only a fascinating journey of his trips but nods respectfully to the history of explorers that have inspired him since an early age. He clearly respects that he is “standing on the shoulders of giants”.
From swarms of black flies to enormous Polar Bears, often dragging his canoe for miles over strength sapping terrain in freezing temperatures, Shoalts tells his story in an engaging and informative style.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book and have already ordered “A History of Canada in 10 Maps” as a result.
A read I could not wait to get back to.