Study From Reindeer Lake To Eskimo Point Depicted By Peter Kazaks Available In PDF

motherinlaw met this gentleman, He and three friend went on a canoe trip described in P, G. Downes book Sleeping Island the Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North, Now everyone in the family has read the book, It is an accurate portrait of theirmile canoe trip which took/weeks, The planned well. Although it was not easy, they suffered no permanent hardship, They really got in touch with nature and tried themselves to leartn about their own nature, I was hoping for more from this book, but I will still give itbecause it did convey the challenges of wilderness living, trekking, portaging and canoeing to a large extent.
My preference would have been for more details on the plants and animals of the subarctic in summer, along with more pictures, It reads more like a diary of the day to day banalities such as 'it was my turn to cook dinner', 'the sky was grey', 'we covered overmiles' etc.
with an occasional foray into the philosophical, .

What really sticks with me is the descriptions of so many lakes, And when I look at a map of the region I am awestruck by the

amount of blue! I would love to make this journey some day, and the practical advice in this book is excellent.


And of course, kudos to Kazaks for even putting the journey details down on paper, This is a mustread for anyone who is thinking of a summer canoe trip in the far north, This was a wonderful book, full of adventure and lovely descriptions of wild northern Canada, but also wrestling with the human element of four men on anmile canoe journey.
Author Peter Kazaks uses just the right combination of each day's paddle interspersed with asides about meals, portaging, insect bites, and the meaning of life, His observations about the status of the Inuit and Canada's aboriginals reveals a littlediscussed aspect of Canadian society, From Reindeer Lake is a welcome summer diversion,

Canoe across large lakes, up and down rivers and rapids labour over portages and through a miasma of blackflies bask in the golden evenings of the Subarctic, In this account of anmile canoe trip which begins at Reindeer Lake on the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border, continues into Nunavut past the treeline, and ends on Hudson Bay Peter Kazaks conveys the experience of being in the north by describing the daily details that bring the trip to life.
He captures the flavour of an extended wilderness canoe trip and reflects on living in unfettered wilderness, The reader will also grasp something of the serene beauty of the barren lands and begin to understand why its intoxicating nature keeps drawing some back,

The first half of the trip, essentially from Reindeer Lake to Nueltin Lake, retraces P, G. Downes' voyage described in his classic Sleeping Island, Next the four men of this expedition, led by George Luste, entered the barren lands and followed the Thlewiaza River, the Kognak River, South Henik Lake and the Maguse River north and east to the shore of Hudson Bay.
These lands, seldom visited, are close to a true wilderness one of the few remaining ones, .