The Wild North Land, The Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern No…
William Francis Butler
Read by Steven Seitel
This book was published in 1910.
Not only do Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, but it seems that sometimes they venture into the frozen north as well, in winter, on foot, and alone. The author summarizes his "long tramp" across the Canadian wilderness thus:
"I started in the autumn of 1872 from the Red River of the North, and, reaching Lake Athabasca, completed half my journey by the first week of March in the following year. From Athabasca I followed the many-winding channel of the frozen Peace River to its great cañon in the Rocky Mountains, and, journeying through this pass—for many reasons the most remarkable one in the whole range of the Rocky Mountains—reached the north of British Columbia in the end of May. From thence, following a trail of 350 miles through the dense forests of New Caledonia, I emerged on the 3rd of June at the frontier station of Quesnelle on the Frazer River, still 400 miles north of Victoria."
- Summary by Steven Seitel (8 hr 0 min)
Chapters
Preface and Chapter 1 | 12:14 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 2 | 5:05 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 3 | 10:23 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 4 | 21:26 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 5 | 8:54 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 6 | 7:14 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 7 | 11:29 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 8 | 18:02 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 9 | 18:09 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 10 | 17:11 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 11 | 32:32 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 12 | 27:08 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 13 | 9:00 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 14 | 21:23 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 15 | 18:17 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 16 | 27:12 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 17 | 22:20 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 18 | 26:48 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 19 | 15:10 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 20 | 14:48 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 21 | 21:51 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 22 | 22:34 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 23 | 21:16 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 24 | 14:38 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 25 | 8:53 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 26 | 23:32 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Chapter 27 | 23:10 | Read by Steven Seitel |