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"The river is the melody, the sky is the refrain"
Gordon Lightfoot
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South Nahanni River
One of Canada's classic adventure rivers in the Northwest Territories, offers unique landscape and scenery such as Virginia Falls, Rabbit Kettle Hot Springs, various Hoo-Doos and caves with legends of dinosaurs, gold and mysterious deaths even up to the 1940's. A truly fascinating place!
Nahanni Trailhead, A Year in the Northern Wilderness, Joanne Ronan Moore, Deneau & Greenberg, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1980.
Nahanni, Dick Turner, Hancock House, Vancouver, B.C. 1975.
The Dangerous River, R.M. Patterson, Gray's Publishing (1st Canadian publication), Sidney, British Columbia. 1966. [First Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1954.]
This is the Bible of the Nahanni River adventures!
Thelon River
Through the Arctic barren lands. A long and isolated trip which cost a colourful character by the name of John Hornby and his two companions their life while starving to death in a makeshift cabin.
The Legend of John Hornby, George Whalley, MacMillan of Canada, 1962.
The Yukon
Follow the path of the Gold Rush of 1898 and read about it in Pierre Burton's books:
- Klondike, McClelland & Stewart, 1958.
- Drifting Home, McClelland & Stewart, 1973.
- Dumoine River
- Winisk River
- Attapawiskat River
- Churchill River
- Coppermine River
- amongst others...
Also discussed in a chapter of Pierre Berton's The Mysterious North.