Sleeping Island

by P. G. Downes

When bush planes and outboard motors were opening up the far North, schoolteacher Prentice Downes chose to travel alone by canoe to explore the Great Barren Lands. Here is the sensitively written account of his trip to remote, unmapped Nueltin Lake. Downes records a landscape and a people barely touched by white men and describes the excitement of wilderness canoe travel, the delights of discovering the land, and his deep respect for the Indians and the Inuit and their ways of life.

Honorable Mention by the National Outdoor Book Awards in the Classic category

324 pages