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The whisper on the night wind : the true history of a wilderness legend / Adam Shoalts.

Summary:

Spine-tingling adventure that is stranger than fiction, 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 up by dark spruce woods that cloak millions of acres. In the 1910s, this isolated little settlement was the scene of an extraordinary haunting by large creatures none could identify. Strange tracks were found in the woods. Unearthly cries were heard in the night. Sled dogs went missing. Children reported being stalked by a terrifying grinning animal. Families slept with cabin doors barred and axes and guns at their bedsides. Tales of things that "go bump in the night" are part of the folklore of the wilderness, told and retold around countless campfires down through the ages. Most seldom seem very tangible. Sasquatch, windigos, and other legends are easily dismissed by skeptics. But what happened at Traverspine a hundred years ago was different. The eye-witness accounts were detailed, and those who reported them included no less than three medical doctors and a wildlife biologist. Something terrifying really did emerge from the wilderness to haunt the little settlement of Traverspine. Adam Shoalts, decorated modern day explorer and an expert on wilderness folklore, picks up the trail from a century ago and sets off into the Labrador wild to investigate the tale. It is a spine-tingling adventure stranger than fiction, straight from a land steeped in legends and lore, where Vikings wandered a thousand years ago and wolves and bears still roam free. In delving into the dark corners of Canada's wild, The Whisper on the Night Wind combines folklore, history, and adventure into a fascinating saga of exploration.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735241046
  • ISBN: 073524104X
  • Physical Description: 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Allen Lane, 2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Traverspine -- Where the wild things are -- The road to Labrador -- Into the wild -- Clues from the past -- Ruins in the woods -- It comes at night -- Downriver --Into the fog -- Legends of long ago -- Against the current -- Unknown things -- The land of shadows -- Horror in the woods -- Crossing the divide -- In the shadow of the mountain -- Night terrors -- Tracking the unknown -- Night on the mountain -- Dawn -- Over the mountains -- Monsters of the wild -- Across the marshes -- Return.
Subject: Shoalts, Adam, 1986-
Shoalts, Adam, 1986- > Travel > Newfoundland and Labrador.
Legends > Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Description and travel.
Newfoundland and Labrador > History.

Available copies

  • 12 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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Prince Rupert Library 917.182 Shoa (Text) 33294002132454 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -


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