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CALL (604) 386-5032 LITERATURE Wanderlust in the wilderness NOTE: This is the second of a@ two-part expedition to the travel and adventure section of your local bookstore. “There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land — oh, it be- ckons and beckons, And I want to go back — and Twill.” Robert Service, The Spell of the Yukon. 00 often are tales of journeys through the north ex- clusively male in viewpoint. I'm pleased to say that two of the three books we have this week were authored or co- authored by women and FREE No Obliga- Ca tion Estimates £74 Lifetime Wheel Balancing Policy CANADA'S LEADING BRAKE SPECIALISTS Your safety comes first’ We offer 20 minute inspection or you get $20 in Brake Check Bucks. f74 Standard Trans- f74 Lifetime Wheel ferable Warranty Alignment Policy jy | : ie | 2505 Douglas St. 382-1818 | oe _ OPEN WEEKDAYS 7:30A.M.-5:30PM. SATURDAYS 8A.M.-4PM. ill | PEO ENN ANNU | PIL LEADING BRAKE SPECIALISTS Heli Iai. | ee ee Pa ie i Ke A |e E is | o: z that the third includes the perspectives of the three women who shared equally in the adventure that in- spired it. The latter title is James Raffan’s Summer North of Sixty (By Paddle and Portage Across The Barren Lands). =Books- West By MIKE STEBLE Raffan, a high school teacher and experienced canoeist, writes of the six-week journey embarked upon by himself and five companions in the summer of 1980. It would be an eventful trip across the Canadian barrens for the three couples, whose wilderness canoeing creden- tials, apart from Raffan’s, were virtually nil. From their jump-off point at Munn Lake, 250 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife, they proposed to paddle and portage 700 kilometres along a rough arc of lakes and rivers eventually leading to Bathurst Inlet, a rocky inden- tation in the coastline of Coronation Gulf, an arm of the Arctic Ocean. Summer North of Sixty (Key Porter; 229 pp.; $24.95) chronicles the mishaps, back- breaking portages (with 40- kilogram packs) and uncertainties of the adven- turers. But it also details the wonder all experienced in their contacts with wildlife in a largely untouched land. That they were successful in If you or your children are involved in organized sports, The Future of Sport & Recreation In Greater Victoria! In Your Community Vote For Those Candidates IN SUPPORT OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES and ITS LEGACIES Itis in your best interest to join the team and help shape On November 17 VOTE | FOR THE GOOD OF SPORT & RECREATION AF SPORTBC INITIATIVE ae Ad Sponsored by Greater Victoria Sports Advocacy | “389-0924 attaining their goal without serious mishap is attributable. | in balanced measures to care” ful planning and teamwork. Summer North of Sixty is both a primer and an inspiration for like-minded city folk with a yearning to know Canada’s northern regions firsthand. Far more arduous was the | daunting task undertaken by | David Halsey: to be the first img the modern era to cross Canada, from west to east, al- | most exclusively utilizing wilderness routes. The American-born Halsey, only 20 years old when the voyage began in Vancouver, was initially accompanied by three companions, also in their 20s. None had any .& serious qualifications for the § 7,520-kilometre venture, but Halsey’s drive and determina- tion convinced the National Geographic Society to provide initial financing. The four set out from Van- couver on May 4, 1977. On May 5, Halsey’s team-mates abandoned the quest. Resisting the urge to follow suit, Halsey struck out on his own, leading to an article about the solo explorer in Quest magazine. A 23-year-old photographer from Chicago, Peter Souchuk, read the ar- ticle and succeeded in joining up with Halsey in Clearwater, B.C. is The 1977-78 Trans-Canada § Expedition, shortly to include an adopted coyote, was f reconstituted. And, believe it Be or not, they made it, although —& they didn’t reach Tadoussac, Quebec, until Aug. 17, 1979. It is this eventful, lengthy — and perhaps quixotic ramble across Canada that is traced § in Magnetic North, as told by Halsey and Diana Landau. . But how, you might wonder, does co-author Landau fit into the picture? With his manuscript for this book still unfinished, Halsey died in a car crash in 1983. Landau, an editor with Sierra Club Books, had been working with him on Magnetic North (Douglas & McIntyre; 252 pp.; Z $24.95) and completed it fol- lowing his death. | The third and last new title with a northern travel theme, Debbie Miller’s Midnight Wilderness — Journeys in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Sierra Club Books/Douglas & McIntyre; | 238 pp.; $24.95) is both a | paean and a warning. The refuge itself encompas- ses a staggering 19 million acres of tundra, mountain ranges and coastal plains. Stretching southward from the Beaufort Sea some 200 miles, its eastern boundary is@ the Canada-U:S. border. Less than half (eight million acres) of the total area is designated wilderness, while 1.5 million acres of the arctic coastal plain section have been placed, in what Miller calls a “legislative com- promise between oil industry and environmental factions,” in an “undecided” category. Given that the Arctic Na- tional Wildlife Refuge abuts our own northern territory (where similar issues have been raised), it is an eloquent plea with a distinct and timely message that we, as 2 Pees PSN PE a PE S_OK a ~ Canadians, ignore at our peril. 2