Downes, P. G. - Eastern Arctic Journal (1938)

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Downes, P. G. - Eastern Arctic Journal (1938)

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Author: Downes, P.G.

Title: Prentice G. Downe's Eastern Arctic Journal, 1936

Year: 1983 (original 1936)

Publisher: Arctic 36(3):232-250

Edited: Cockburn, R. H. 

Pages: 19 

Source: Arctic Institute of North America 

Description: "The first of a chronological series of northern journals by a man who later did mapping that was put to use by the Dominion government and who was to write one of the century's most perceptive books about the subarctic north and wilderness canoe travel [Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man's Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North].  The journal provides a detailed account of P. G. Downes's experiences during R.M.S. Nascopie's 1936 passage from Montreal to Churchill" (1983:232).



 

 
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