num_pages: 400
description: 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 partyturned 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 NovaScotia-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 adventuresof our century.
language: English
title: Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure
titlecomplete: Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (Kodansha Globe)
genres: Biography, Adventure, Canada, Nonfiction, Travel, History
ratings_count: 253
publisher: Kodansha USA