The Lure of the Labrador Wild

by Dillon Wallace

Overview

"How would you like to go to Labrador, Wallace?" It was a snowy night in late November, 1901, that my friend, Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., asked me this question. All day he and I had been tramping through the snow among the Shawangunk Mountains in southern New York, and when the shades of evening fell we had built a lean-to of boughs to shelter us from the storm. Now that we had eaten our supper of bread and bacon, washed down with tea, we lay before our roaring campfire, luxuriating in its glow and warmth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781523763955
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/14/2016
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) was an American lawyer, outdoorsman, author of non-fiction, fiction and magazine articles. His first book, The Lure of the Labrador Wild (1905) was a best-seller, as were many of his later books.

Read an Excerpt

When our breakfast of bones and hide was ready boiled with a yeast was ready, he sat up in the tent to receive his share. While drinking the water and chewing the hide, we again carefully considered how long it should take George to reach Grand Lake, and how long it would be before help would arrive, if he were able to obtain any, and how long it would require me to reach the flour and return. It was, roughly speaking, forty miles to Grand lake, and fifteen miles to the flour.

Editorial Reviews

Three men set out to explore the interior of Canadian Labrador, looking for adventure and material for new maps and magazine articles. But a wrong turn proves perilous, and their quest ends in freezing and starvation. Jody Richardson brings an appropriate sense of melancholy to Wallace’s first-person account. Richardson’s even pacing and clear tone offer understanding, if not excitement, as the men move from anticipation through exhilaration, trepidation, and resignation. His unfamiliar pronunciation of Canadian place names and common camping terms gives the impression that the trip took place over a century ago. Without these reminders, the story might have taken place last week or last year. R.L.L. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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