True North

By Elliott Merrick

Book Overview

An enthralling survival memoir "of a running fight against the forces of nature" and "the joys of wild life"--for lovers of nature and off-grid adventure (Kirkus Reviews) In the 1930s, a couple... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933937009
• ISBN13: 9781933937007
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Heron Dance Pr Inc
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

True North

I haven't read the book yet (it's in a stack waiting)...but it arrived in a timely manner, in excellent shape. Thank you for your prompt service, as always.

Excellent tale...

I read some of the previous reviews before getting this and some were positive and some negative...I have to say I was very much pleased with the book, excellent story and tale with local dialogue to add an element of adventure and flair. I just really enjoyed the story and to see the hardships people faced...

If only I had lived then

This book will transcend you to a time and place that makes you feel at peace with nature. Merrick's writing is like poetry in motion. You will wish you could have been there to experience the times when he is at one with the universe. The people and places he is writing about no longer exist, which is the greatest pity of all.

A great read for lovers of the Canadian North

A fascinating book! A well written account by a man who traveled extensively in the Canadian North in the 1930s, just as the traditional remoteness that had characterized that world was ending with the introduction of planes and other technologies. Merrick was a keen and sympathetic friend of the North, its history and its Native peoples.