Great heart : the history of a Labrador adventure / Majes West Davidson and John Rugge ; with a new introduction by Howard Frank Mosher and a new afterword by the authors.
TITLE:
Great heart : the history of a Labrador adventure / Majes West Davidson and John Rugge ; with a new introduction by Howard Frank Mosher and a new afterword by the authors.
Publication Date:
1997, 1988
Publication Information:
Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press,
Physical Description:
389 p. : ill., map.
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Summary:
In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard was commissioned by an outdoors magazine to explore Labrador by canoe. Joined by his best friend, Dillon Wallace, and a Scots-Cree guide, George Elson, Hubbard hoped to make a name for himself as an adventurer. But plagued by poor judgment and bad luck, his party turned back and Hubbard died of starvation just thirty miles from camp. Two years later, Hubbard s widow, Mina, and Wallace returned to Labrador, leading rival expeditions to complete the original trek and fix blame for the earlier failure. Their race made headlines from New York to Nova Scotia-and it makes fascinating reading today in this widely acclaimed reconstruction of the epic saga. The authors draw on contemporary accounts and their own journeys in Labrador to evoke the intense drama to men and women pushed beyond the limits of endurance in one of the great true adventures of our century.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780773516571
