In Finlay's River, R. M. Patterson, whose style was described by noted author Bruce Hutchison as a "a mixture between Thoreau and Jack London," tells the story of his 1949 trip up this wild river in remote northern British Columbia. Patterson uses his own journey as a framework to recount the adventures of explorers who went there before; all had struggled up the Finlay for different reasons, and all left spirited accounts of that challenging, doomed...