Title: Death in the barren ground
Description: A new edition of the diary of Edgar Christian with introduction and editing by George Whalley. Author's personal account of journey with John Hornby and Harold Adlard to winter in the Thelon Game Sanctuary and to explore a new route from Great Slave Lake to Chesterfield Inlet.
Subjects: Biography, Description and travel, Last letters before death, Starvation, Explorers
Places: Thelon River Valley (N.W.T. and Nunavut)
People: Edgar Vernon Christian (1908-1927), Harold Adlard (1898-1927), John Hornby (1880-1927)