Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage by Castner, Brian

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

"Masterful." Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to...
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Author: Brian Castner
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage by Castner, Brian

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

$41.20

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

$41.20
Author: Brian Castner
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"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 change. Fourteen 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 money. What he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.

Author: Brian Castner
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 02/05/2019
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781101973165

About the Author
Brian Castner is a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer who received a Bronze Star for his service in the Iraq War. He is the author of two books, The Long Walk (2012) and All the Ways We Kill and Die (2016), and the co-editor of the anthology The Road Ahead (2017). His journalism and essays have appeared in Esquire, Wired, Vice, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and other publications. The Long Walk was adapted into an opera that has been performed at prestigious venues nationwide.

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