Full name: Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure

Authors: James West Davidson, John Rugge Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Travel, Adventure, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781568361680 1568361688

In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard was commissioned by an outdoors magazine to explore Labrador by canoe. Joined by his best friend, Dillon Wallace, and a Scots-Cree guide, George Elson, Hubbard hoped to make a name for himself as an adventurer. But plagued by poor judgment and bad luck, his party turned back and Hubbard died of starvation just thirty miles from camp. Two years later, Hubbard's widow, Mina, and Wallace returned to Labrador, leading rival expeditions to complete the original trek and fix blame for the earlier failure. Their race made headlines from New York to Nova Scotia-and it makes fascinating reading today in this widely acclaimed reconstruction of the epic saga. The authors draw on contemporary accounts and their own journeys in Labrador to evoke the intense drama to men and women pushed beyond the limits of endurance in one of the great true adventures of our century. Similar books: The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane Island of the Lost by Joan Druett Shackleton's Forgotten Men by Lennard Bickel The Good Rain by Timothy Egan River of Darkness by Buddy Levy Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming Forbidden Journey by Ella Maillart At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig by John Gimlette The Sindbad Voyage by Tim Severin Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham Blood River by Tim Butcher Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins Annapurna by Maurice Herzog The Race for Timbuktu by Frank T. Kryza Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Endurance by Alfred Lansing