Death on the Barrens

Death on the Barrens A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic

Unabridged edition

Audio CD (16 Aug 2016)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes listeners on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy, redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell was one of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led by experienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt. Poorly planned and executed, the journey seemed doomed from the start. Ignoring the approaching winter, the men became entranced with the peace and beauty of the arctic in autumn. As winter closed in, they suddenly faced numbing cold and dwindling food. When the crew is swept over a waterfall, Moffatt is killed and most of the gear and emergency food supplies destroyed. Confronting freezing conditions and near starvation, the remaining crew struggled to make it back to civilization.

For Grinnell, the three-month expedition was both a rite of passage and a spiritual odyssey. In the Barrens, he lost his sense of identity and what he had been conditioned to think about society and himself. Forever changed by the experience, he unsparingly describes how the expedition influenced his adult life and what powerful insights he was able to glean from this life-altering experience.

Book information

ISBN: 9781531805289
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Imprint: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Pub date:
Edition: Unabridged edition
Language: English
Weight: -1g
Height: 7mm
Width: 6mm
Spine width: 1mm