num_pages: 179
description: In 1955, five men in their early twenties set off with 36-year-old Art Moffat on a canoe trip through Canada's arctic. The group was unprepared for the cold. They ran out of food and winter closed in. Then the group inadvertently went over a waterfall and the leader. Art Moffat died of hypothermia. One of the young men on the trip, George Grinnell, has worked on his account of the journey for fifty years. It is a powerful book of survival and awakening - a physical and spiritual odyssey. A Death on the Barrens, was originally published in 1996. This revised Heron Dance Press edition contains Roderick MacIver watercolors.
language: English
title: A Death on the Barrens
titlecomplete: A Death on the Barrens
genres: Adventure, History, Survival, Memoir, Nonfiction, Canada
ratings_count: 312
places: Canadian Arctic (Nunavut, Northwest Territories & Yukon)
publisher: Heron Dance Press