What does it mean to explore and confront the unknown? Beyond the Trees recounts Adam Shoalts's solo crossing of Canada's mainland Arctic in a single season--the first in recorded history. It weaves the narrative of Shoalts's journey into accounts of other adventurers, explorers, First Nations, fur traders, dreamers, eccentrics, and bush pilots to create a tale of adventure and exploration. Interspersed with Shoalts' stories of navigating mazes of shifting ice floes, facing down snarling bears and galloping musk-ox, and portaging along knife-edge cliffs above furious rapids, are the legends, historic persons, and anecdotes that make up the lore of the North.
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