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1 comments about Forbidden Journey.

1. I read this book years ago while I was living in France and I left my copy there. I have often wished I still had it. It's doubly entertaining and informative to read with the Peter Fleming book.
   
   I'd like to give you more details, but it's been so long, only the pleasure of the tale lingers.

4 comments about New York to Nome: The Northwest Passage by Canoe : From the Recollections of Shell Taylor.

1. This is a well written narative of the first men to cross the continent by canoe through the elusive "Northwest Passage". It's strange that this is such an obscure event. One would think that this could well rank up there with many of the great adventuresome firsts of history. It's certainly easy to read, though I felt a little thin on the character development. If you like outdoor adventure travel stories, this one is worth your while.



2. The canoe trip of New York to Nome is an exceptional adventure. Although told many years later, it still brings the excitement of the trip to life. The book is a bit thin on details, I wished for more on how they packed, the gear they carried, how they set up camp. I wanted to know more because I love to sea kayak and camp and have gone on many multiday trips covering a hundred miles or more. But those trips are nothing compared to this one.
   
   Great book for adventurers who enjoy paddling, camping and the outdoors.



3. The book is not a great work of literature, but it is a great adventure story! A great and forgotten adventure - the longest canoe journey on record!
   
   A couple of questions:
   
   Does the film that the guys took still exist? If so, it would be great if it could be belatedly made into the movie that they had hoped for way back in then in the 1930's!
   
   The book wasn't made until the 1980's, about 50 years after the voyage. According to the author, both of the participants were still living at the time. Why didn't the author make the effort to contact the second voyageur in order to get his version of the events, especially since there were some disaparaging remarks made about him?
   
   Great adventure! When I lived in NYC I used to sea kayak and canoe in the rivers and lakes and sounds and oceans around the city. These two guys bought an old canoe, stuck it in the Hudson on 42nd Street, hopped in, and said they're paddling to Nome, Alaska! And they did!
   
   
   
   
   
   
   TGM



4. I just finished reading this book for the second time. It's truly a great story about a canoeing adventure that took place back when much of the Canadian wilderness was still wild. The canoeists encounter Cree indians who live in the bush, and forts isolated from all roads--fragments of a past long gone.
   
   It really is a shame their accomplishment has faded into obscurity. Searching the Web will find you virtually nothing about these two men and their voyage. Even the dearth of reviewers on this site is sad. They worked so hard to make this trip, expecting to make the history books, and then got mostly ignored.
   
   Though some may want more details, I felt what was included was more than enough to give a sense of this trip, the hardships and joys. True, it would have been nice to hear the "co-commander's" viewpoints; the author talked only to one of the two men (Shell) on the trip. And while his disparaging comments on his friend were often amusing, if mean, it made you wonder what the other guy (Jeff) would have said about the same incidents. Still, at least Shell was honest about his feelings, and didn't whitewash the trip.
   
   I loved reading about their encounters with various people living out in the wild, imaging these people living and dying with no record of their lives--until this book came out. The lighthouse keeper and his bed full of bugs, the Cree Indians who ate all the boys' bannock but then surprised them with their generosity, the hard-drinking people at the fort where they wintered--these people are all gone now, but thanks to this book, a portion of their lives has been brought back for us to learn about.
   
   The book is very well written, but more importantly entertaining and interesting.

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1 comments about Klondike Newsman: Stroller White.

1. A collection of turn-of-the-century newspaper columns byStroller White, "Klondike Newsman" vividly recaptures whatit was like to be in bustling Northern towns like Skagway and Dawson City around the time of the Gold Rush. White's columns are both funny and historically valuable. A real treat and a pleasant surprise. The only reason I don't give this book 5 stars is because the editors do not do a good enough job of placing White and his writings in historical perspective. All in all, though, I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

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