The whisper on the night wind : the true history of a wilderness legend / Adam Shoalts.

The whisper on the night wind : the true history of a wilderness legend / Adam Shoalts.

By
Shoalts, Adam, 1986-

Publication Date
2021

Publication Information
[S.I.] : Allen Lane,

Physical Description
239 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., map.

Geographic Term
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Description and travel.
 
Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.

Genre
Legends -- Newfoundland and Labrador.

Summary
Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of it swallowed up by dark spruce woods that cloak millions of acres. In the early 1900s, this isolated little settlement was the scene of an extraordinary haunting by large creatures none could identify. Strange tracks were found in the woods. Unearthly cries were heard in the night. Sled dogs went missing. Children reported being stalked by a terrifying grinning animal. Families slept with cabin doors barred and axes and guns at their bedsides. Tales of things that "go bump in the night" are part of the folklore of the wilderness, told and retold around countless campfires down through the ages. Most are easily dismissed by skeptics. But what happened at Traverspine a hundred years ago was different. The eye-witness accounts were detailed, and those who reported them included no less than three medical doctors and a wildlife biologist. Adam Shoalts, decorated modern-day explorer and an expert on wilderness folklore, picks up the trail from a century ago and sets off into the Labrador wild to investigate the tale. It is a spine-tingling adventure, straight from a land steeped in legends and lore, where Vikings wandered a thousand years ago and wolves and bears still roam free.

Language
English

ISBN
9780735241046


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