{"product_id":"disappointment-river-brian-castner-9781101973165","title":"Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Masterful.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDisappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides in an attempt to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named \"Disappointment.\" Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white-water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide-open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money. What he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Castner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1101973161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101973165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Brian Castner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988377927935,"sku":"9781101973165","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6b935b7-4ca1-4281-b8ff-4f526b459b0e.jpg?v=1683294197","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disappointment-river-brian-castner-9781101973165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}