Down the Wild River North by Constance Helmericks 1968 HBDJ

DOWN THE WILD RIVER NORTH
By Constance Helmericks

Illustrations by

Michael Allen Hampshire

Ex-Library Book. Copyright Date: 1968. First Edition Stated. Published By: Little, Brown and Company. 501 Pages. Book Boards Are In Fair condition with some edge & shelf wear. Has library pocket & several library stamps & markings. Pages Are Intact & Tight with several light soiling spots. Dustjacket is in Only Fair condition with some edge & shelf wear, price clipped, tape on flaps.

From the Flyleaf:..........

The true story of of two summers canoeing through the last great wilderness in North America, Canada's northwest.

Armed with maps, a tent, and a twenty-foot canoe, Constance Helmericks and her two daughters, Jean, fourteen, and Ann, twelve, set out to follow the route of the great explorers through that enormous and largely uninhabited territory, down the Peace and Mackenzie Rivers.

The three voyagers' adventures along their way ranged from the terrifyling danger of a storm on Great Slave Lake, to the beauty of the virgin Great Bear Lake at dawn, to the earthy details of life aboard a river-dredging barge. Among the most extrordinary of their experiences were the people they met. What makes an old Norwegian trapper stay in his lonely cabin on the Peace River, miles from anyone except for a renegade Indian who robs his traps, through winters of unremitting cold and darkness and summers of flood and mosquitoes? What kind of people are a newly married couple, barely twenty years old, from Cleveland, who go into the northern wilderness to promote Chrisitanity among the Indians and Eskimoes?

The land itself plays a major part in this story. From the mud and mosquito-infested jungle of the Alberta forest, to the Precambrian rock shores of Great Slave Lake, to the rugged Mackenzie Mountains where the river tumbles down chilly gorges, to the weird flat expanse of the Barrens, the land Constance Helmericks describes is true wilderness.

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