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Arctic Aurora: Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories
Arctic Aurora Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories Author:John Holt Imagine a land more than a dozen times the size of Montana, a land of immense inland seas, oceans of uncut forests, and myriad untamed rivers filled with huge northern pike, arctic grayling, and char. It is also a land of rock and of ice that lies glistening beneath flickering northern lights, a place where grizzlies wander among isolated mounta... more »in ranges, where polar bears roam among herds of caribou on the tundra flats. This is Canadas far north, the place of Arctic Aurora. Author John Holt has made nine trips to this wild place, covering some fifty thousand miles in his exploration of its magic. Through his words -- sometimes lyrical and introspective, sometimes insightfully humorous -- youll share in his adventures. Sometimes, they involve the miners, trappers, bush pilots, and even the odd tourist he encountered. At others, his focus is the cold-water game fish that he cast to and hooked in every corner of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Includes striking color and black-and-white photographs.« less