Beyond the Great Slave Lake.
Publisher: Cassell (1957) -  E.P. Dutton (1958)
Published: 1957
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Tom Lodge, 1936-; Adventure and adventurers.; Great Slave Lake (N.W.T.); Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel.
First sentence: When I sailed home to England I was twenty and roughly ten years older; also sixteen pounds heavier and a thousand pounds richer.
Description: Fascinating and often hair-raising are the extraordinary adventures of this young Englishman in the frozen wilds of the Canadian Northwest. Grandson of the great physicist, Sir Oliver Lodge, Tom Lodge was eighteen when he set out for Canada in a spirit of adventure. On Great Slave Lake in Northern Canada, he discovered the terrible isolation of a log cabin on the frozen wastes of the inland sea and just how tough a man's life can be. When he was fishing with an Indian named Whitegeese, the ice begins to break up and the two men, with their dogs, are borne out away from shore in the bitter cold. Tom survives only after appalling hardships. Also romance appears as he goes on his adventurous way. He brings vividly alive the scenes, the characters, and the last truly pioneer country on this continent.
Notes: Autobiographical.
Table of contents: label: 1
pagenum: 9
title: Welcome, Says Canada; label: 2
pagenum: 21
title: Cowboys and Realities; label: 3
pagenum: 48
title: I Set Out for Great Slave; label: 4
pagenum: 61
title: Life Begins at Lonely Point; label: 5
pagenum: 78
title: Fishin' and Fightin'; label: 6
pagenum: 90
title: The Icy Trek; label: 7
pagenum: 108
title: Death on Great Slave Lake; label: 8
pagenum: 129
title: Sanda and the Bottle of Rum; label: 9
pagenum: 146
title: I Make Friends Among the Indians; label: 10
pagenum: 167
title: All Hands to the Fire; label: 11
pagenum: 180
title: From Concrete to Cadillac