From August Abolins@2:221/1.59 to All on Wed Nov 15 22:15:39 2023
Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic | Hardcover
Adam Shoalts
Penguin Canada | Allen Lane
Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers / Environmentalists & Naturalists / History / Expeditions & Discoveries
Published Oct 3, 2023
"From Canada?s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada?s landscape and history.
"Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains. Grabbing his backpack and canoe, Shoalts resolved to follow the falcon?s route north on an astonishing 3,400-kilometre journey to the Arctic.
"Along the way, he faces a huge variety of challenges and obstacles, including storms on the Great Lakes, finding campsites in the urban wilderness of Toronto and Montreal, avoiding busy commercial freighter traffic, gale force winds, massive hydroelectric dams, bushwhacking without trails, dealing with hunger, multiple bear encounters, and navigating white-water rapids on icy northern rivers far from any help.
"Where the Falcon Flies invites readers on an extraordinary armchair adventure that spans five ecoregions and centuries of fascinating history, and is a masterwork by one of Canada?s most successful and audacious authors.
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From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to August Abolins on Thu Nov 16 09:36:01 2023
Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic | Hardcover
Reminds me of "The North Runner" by R.D.Lawrence ...