Chapter One
THE ROAD 1
Chapter Two
FIRST TRIP OUT: ICE AND FIRE 7
Chapter Three
FIRST TRIP IN: THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF TOWN 79
Chapter Four
SECOND TRIP OUT: GETTING WET 93
Chapter Five
SECOND TRIP IN: GOLD 121
Chapter Six
THIRD TRIP OUT: POOR OLD FUD 132
Chapter Seven
THIRD TRIP IN: TUNDRA 142
Chapter Eight
FOURTH TRIP OUT: PERSEVERANDO 164
Chapter Nine
THE BIG LAKE 222
Maps of Northwestern Canada
and Denison's Ice Road will be found on
pages 10-11
A short poem can be found opposite the table of contents.
Edith Iglauer was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She married Philip Hamburger and raised two sons in New York. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker, she has written a great deal about Canada. Her first book, The New People (1966, reprinted and updated as Inuit Journey in 1979 and 2000) chronicled the growth of native cooperatives in the eastern Arctic. She profiled Pierre Trudeau in 1969 and internationally known architect Arthur Erickson in 1979. Denison's Ice Road is about the building of a 325-mile winter road above the Arctic Circle. Divorced in 1966, she came to Vancouver in 1973. She married John Heywood Daly, a commercial salmon troller and moved to Garden Bay on the BC coast. Daly died in 1978. After writing Seven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson, Architect (1981) she began recording her memories of her late husband and his salmon troller the MoreKelp. The result was Fishing with John, a runaway bestseller and nominee for the 1989 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. Her second memoir, about her career in journalism, was The Strangers Next Door.
"The reader, if he or she doesn't watch out, will succumb to [Iglauer's] affection for Canada's 'true north'- a disease that people up there call Arctic Fever, and say is incurable."—New York Times
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