True North

by Elliott Merrick

Book Overview

In 1929, Elliott Merrick left his position as an advertising executive in New Jersey and headed up to Labrador. There, he worked as an unpaid volunteer for the Grenfell Mission. In 1933, he wrote this incomparable book about his experiences in the northern wilderness, living and working with trappers, American Indians and the nurse he met and married.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803281641
• ISBN13: 9780803281646
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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.