Ebook {Epub PDF} Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown by Adam Shoalts

Gripping and often poetic, Alone Against the North is a classic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common. Shoalts's story makes it clear that the world can become known only by setting out into the unfamiliar, where every step is different from the one before and something you may never have imagined lies /5(). About Alone Against the North: When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he discovered surprised even him. Shoalts was no stranger to the bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. Alone Against the North. An Expedition into the Unknown. The story of Adam’s incredible adventures alone to some of the world’s last unexplored places. Alone Against the North was a #1 national best-seller in Canada for non-fiction. Winner of the Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for .

Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown by Adam Shoalts In his recent biography of Roald Amundsen, The Last Viking, Stephen R. Bown describes the Norwegian explorer's awareness of living at a time when the window for achieving greatness in an expeditionary context was closing. Adam Shoalts speaks about his epic summerlong, 2,mile expedition across Canada's Far North barrenlands from Yukon to Hudson Bay. —Read CK's review of Alone Against the North. Praise for Alone Against the North: "Rare insight into the heart and mind of an explorer, and the insatiable hunger for the unknown that both inspires and drives one to the edge. Adam Shoalts, twenty-first-century explorer, calmly describes the things he has endured that would drive most people to despair, or even madness.".

Alone Against the North. An Expedition into the Unknown. The story of Adam’s incredible adventures alone to some of the world’s last unexplored places. Alone Against the North was a #1 national best-seller in Canada for non-fiction. Winner of the Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for northern literature. Praise for Alone Against the North: “Rare insight into the heart and mind of an explorer, and the insatiable hunger for the unknown that both inspires and drives one to the edge. Adam Shoalts, twenty-first-century explorer, calmly describes the things he has endured that would drive most people to despair, or even madness.”. 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.