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Survival tale in Canada's unforgiving wilderness.
If you're drawn to true stories of adventure and endurance against overwhelming odds, "Cold Burial" may resonate deeply with you. It's an immersive experience into the harsh realities that can emerge from the pursuit of proving oneself against nature. This narrative, reconstructed from a long-lost journal, speaks of youthful ambition and the grave cost it can entail—a poignant reminder of the thin line between bravery and folly.
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ISBN: 9780312288549
Authors:
Clive Powell-Williams
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date of Publication: 2002-02-18
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics:
War,
Memoir,
World War II,
Inspirational,
Autobiography,
Biography,
Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 3.68
(rated by 56 readers)
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For schoolboys in the 1920s, too young to have experienced first-hand the horrors of World War One, theirs was yet the age of adventure. Their imaginations fired by the exploits of Robert Scott, T. E. Lawrence, Ernest Shackleton, and George Mallory, and by the novels of John Buchan and Jack London, they dreamed of exploring and conquering new frontiers. Lawrence had retreated from public life, and Scott, Shackleton, and Mallory were by then all dead, but their heroic feats remained the measure of British manhood, the standard to be carried forward.In the Spring of 1926, Edgar Christian, a young man of eighteen fresh out of public school, joined his dashing cousin, the legendary (if somewhat self-styled) adventurer Jack Hornby, and a friend named Harold Adlard on an expedition into the Barren Lands of the Canadian Northwest Territories. The plan was to hunt caribou and trap for fur. For young Edgar, the Barrens expedition offered a chance to prove himself and to find his direction in life; for Hornby, a veteran of the Great War as well previous forays into the Northwest (he was known in some quarters as "Hornby of the North"), it represented his latest date with disaster. Together they would demonstrate that civilized men could survive, even thrive, in one of the world's most inhospitable regions. They were proved wrong.Based in large part upon a diary left behind by Edgar, discovered when his body and those of his companions were found two years after their deaths, Clive Powell-Williams' account of the expedition is a gripping narrative of innocence and experience, youthful idealism and unyielding nature. It matters little that we know in advance the tragic outcome, for in its unfolding Cold Burial recounts a tale of courage, folly, and ultimately redemptive love that will haunt readers long after they've read the last page.
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Survival tale in Canada's unforgiving wilderness.
If you're drawn to true stories of adventure and endurance against overwhelming odds, "Cold Burial" may resonate deeply with you. It's an immersive experience into the harsh realities that can emerge from the pursuit of proving oneself against nature. This narrative, reconstructed from a long-lost journal, speaks of youthful ambition and the grave cost it can entail—a poignant reminder of the thin line between bravery and folly.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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