The Whisper on the Night Wind

By Adam Shoalts,

Book cover of The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

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Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer.

Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of it swallowed…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Whisper on the Night Wind as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The author takes you with him on a canoe ride in dangerous territory in central Labrador (Canada), hunting down an old mystery. You feel as though you are there with him and his companion in the deep woods, paddling upstream on huge rushing rivers, and surviving the waves of insects determined to devour him.
It's a once in a lifetime journey that I felt as though I lived with him, getting to know a territory, I will probably never get to visit.

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