{"product_id":"book-dgb1","title":"Alone Against the North","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eLegislative Assembly of Ontario's \u003cb\u003e2016 Young Authors Award \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/b\u003e2017 Louise de Kiriline Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe age of exploration is not over.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he discovered surprised even him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShoalts was no stranger to the wilderness. He had hacked his way through jungles and swamp, had stared down polar bears and climbed mountains. But one spot on the map called out to him irresistibly: the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a trackless expanse of muskeg and lonely rivers, caribou and wolf—an Amazon of the north, parts of which to this day remain unexplored. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCutting through this forbidding landscape is a river no explorer, trapper, or canoeist had left any record of paddling. It was this river that Shoalts was obsessively determined to explore. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt took him several attempts, and years of research. But finally, alone, he found the headwaters of the mysterious river. He believed he had discovered what he had set out to find. But the adventure had just begun. Unexpected dangers awaited him downstream.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGripping and often poetic, \u003ci\u003eAlone Against the North\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut what does exploration mean in an age when satellite imagery of even the remotest corner of the planet is available to anyone with a phone? Is there anything left to explore?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was crowned “Canada’s Indiana Jones” and appeared on morning television. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts’s proof that the world is bigger than we think.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eShoalts’s story makes it clear that the world can become known only by getting out of our cars and armchairs, and setting out into the unknown, where every step is different from the one before, and something you may never have imagined lies around the next curve in the river.                                             \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328839098672,"sku":"BDdgb1","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/412223-dgb1-Square.jpg?v=1733726645","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dgb1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}