Alone against the north / Adam Shoalts.
-- Alone Against the North But what does exploration mean in an age when satellite imagery of even the remotest corner of the planet is available to anyone with a phone? Is there anything left to explore? What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned "Canada's Indiana Jones "and appeared on morning television. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts's proof that the world is bigger than we think. Shoalts's story makes it clear that the world can become known only by getting out of our cars and armchairs, and setting out into the unknown, where every step is different from the one before, and something you may never have imagined lies around the next curve in the river. From the Hardcover edition.
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- ISBN: 9780143193999
- ISBN: 0143193996
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Penguin Canada, 2015.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Hudson Bay Region > Discovery and exploration. Hudson Bay Region > Description and travel. Discoveries in geography. Shoalts, Adam, 1984- > Travel. Explorers > Canada. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |