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"From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, the water in this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar b...
This account of a canoe trip by six canoeists travelling across the Barrens in the Keewatin district of the Northwest Territories from Yellowknife via the Back River and Burnside River to Bathurst Inlet in the summer of 1980 includes discussion of the value of wilderness and desc...
From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear's precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce . Nanurjuk, "the bear-spirited one," is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice n...
From seasoned traveller and bestselling author James Raffan comes a book that will transform the way we think about northerners and the north Over the course of three years, James Raffan circumnavigated the globe at 66.6 degrees latitude: the Arctic Circle. Armed with his pass...
The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson' s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulded a man, a company and a...
Wild Rivers is a remarkable photographic odyssey that celebrates North America's thousands of miles of untamed wilderness rivers.