The Lure of the Labrador Wild

Dillon Wallace

ISBN 10: 0921054580 / ISBN 13: 9780921054580

Edité par Nimbus Publishing, 1990

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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.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Lure of the Labrador Wild
Éditeur : Nimbus Publishing
Date d'édition : 1990
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket