The Lure of the Labrador Wild - Couverture souple

Wallace, Dillon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0921054580 ISBN 13 : 9780921054580

Editeur : Nimbus Publishing Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

In the late spring of 1903 Leonidas Hubbard, an ambitious young writer, Dillon Wallace, a forty-year-old New York attorney, and George Elson, an Indian guide with no firsthand knowledge of their destination, set out on an adventure. Beset by delays, the men paddle past their intended route. When in early September they finally glimpse the vast waters of Michikamau from atop an unknown mountain, the cold winds have already begun. With almost no food left, the three begin a desperate struggle against starvation and the quickening pace of a cruel winter, heading homeward in a race for their lives.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Dillon Wallace was the writer and New York lawyer who accompanied his friend Leonidas Hubbard on the ill-fated expedition to the Labrador. Hubbard, who became an assistant editor of Outing magazine and in 1903, led the expedition to canoe the system Naskaupi River - Lake Michikamau in Labrador and George River in Quebec. An Indian guide from Missannabie, George Elson also accompanied them. From the start (departing North West River on July 15), the expedition was beset with mistakes and problems. Instead of ascending the Naskaupi River, by mistake they followed the shallow Susan Brook. After hard long portaging and almost reaching Lake Michikamau, with food supplies running out, on September 15 at Windbound lake, they decided to turn back. On October 18, Wallace and Elson went in a search of cached store of flour, leaving Hubbard behind in a tent. Hubbard died of exhaustion and starvation on either the same or next day. Wallace got lost in the snowstorm, while Elson, after a week of bushwhacking and building rafts to cross swollen rivers (with no ax), reached the nearest occupied cabin. A search party found Wallace alive on October 30, 1903. After Wallace was nursed back to health (he suffered gangrene in his foot), the two men accompanied Hubbard's body back to New York for burial in May 1904. In 1905, Mina Hubbard and Dillon Wallace led two competitive expeditions from North West River to the Hudson Bay Company post at the mouth of George River. Both were successful. George Elson accompanied Mina Hubbard. In 1913, Wallace returned with Judge William Malone and Gilbert Blake to place a memorial plaque where his friend perished. Their canoe overturned on Beaver River and the plaque was lost. Wallace then created a memorial using white paint and a brush made from Gilbert's hair. In July 1977, with the assistance of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Dillon Wallace III, the son of Hubbard's companion, and Rudy Mauro placed a replica of the lost plaque on the inscribed stone at Hubbard's last camp.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1900 Dillon Wallace met Leonidas Hubbard, an assistant editor with Outing magazine. Hubbard asked Wallace to join him on an exploratory trip through Labador, the plan was to follow the Naskaupi River to Lake Michikamau, a region that had yet to be explored by Europeans. They departed in July 1903, but took the wrong river from the very start, following the much smaller and more difficult Susan River. Short on supplies, with winter coming on, Hubbard became ill and died of starvation. Wallace made it back alive. Wallace wrote a book about the trip called The Lure of the Labrador Wild (1905), it was his first book and a best-seller. Hubbard's wife, Mina Hubbard, was upset with Wallace because she thought the book unfairly blamed her dead husband for the failed expedition, thus sullying her family name.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nimbus Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0921054580
• ISBN 13: 9780921054580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible