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Adam Shoalts' first title chronicling an expedition into the unknown, "Alone Against The North is the story of Adam’s incredible adventures alone to some of the world’s last unexplored places, and was a #1 national best-seller in Canada for non-fiction.
Alone Against the North is a gripping and often poetic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common.
But what does exploration mean in an age when satellite imagery of even the remotest corner of the planet is available to anyone with a phone? Is there anything left to explore?
What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned “Canada’s Indiana Jones” and appeared on morning television. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts’s proof that the world is bigger than we think.
Shoalts’s story makes it clear that the world can become known only by getting out of our cars and armchairs, and setting out into the unknown, where every step is different from the one before, and something you may never have imagined lies around the next curve in the river.
Paperback: 304 pages
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| SKU | 9780143193975 |
| Brand | Penguin Books |
