“Masterful.”


Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound changeFourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides in an attempt to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named “Disappointment.” Mackenzie died thinking he had failed.

He was wrong.

In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie''s epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white-water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide-open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil moneyWhat he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.


Format Häftad Omfång 336 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Random House USA Inc Utgivningsdatum 2019-02-05 ISBN 9781101973165