The Lure of the Labrador Wild

by Dillon Wallace Narrated by LibriVox Community

Overview

The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi River - Lake Michikamau in Labrador and George River in Quebec. His companions on this journey were his friend, New York lawyer Dillon Wallace and an Indian guide from Missannabie, George Elson. From the start, the expedition was beset with mistakes and problems. Instead of ascending the Naskaupi River, by mistake they followed the shallow Susan Brook. After hard long portaging and almost reaching Lake Michikamau, with food supplies running out, on September 15 at Windbound lake, they decided to turn back. On October 18, Wallace and Elson went in a search of cached store of flour, leaving Hubbard behind in a tent. Hubbard died of exhaustion and starvation on either same or next day. Wallace got lost in the snowstorm, while Elson, after a week of bushwhacking, building raft to cross swollen rivers (with no ax), reached the nearest occupied cabin. A search party found Wallace alive on October 30, 1903.( Summary from Wikipedia )

Editorial Reviews

AUG/SEP 06 - AudioFile

Three men set out to explore the interior of Canadian Labrador, looking for adventure and material for new maps and magazine articles. But a wrong turn proves perilous, and their quest ends in freezing and starvation. Jody Richardson brings an appropriate sense of melancholy to Wallace’s first-person account. Richardson’s even pacing and clear tone offer understanding, if not excitement, as the men move from anticipation through exhilaration, trepidation, and resignation. His unfamiliar pronunciation of Canadian place names and common camping terms gives the impression that the trip took place over a century ago. Without these reminders, the story might have taken place last week or last year. R.L.L. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169393880
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014

Read an Excerpt

When our breakfast of bones and hide was ready boiled with a yeast was ready, he sat up in the tent to receive his share. While drinking the water and chewing the hide, we again carefully considered how long it should take George to reach Grand Lake, and how long it would be before help would arrive, if he were able to obtain any, and how long it would require me to reach the flour and return. It was, roughly speaking, forty miles to Grand lake, and fifteen miles to the flour.

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