The Long Labrador Trail

A firsthand account of a return expedition into Labrador undertaken to complete a fallen companion's exploratory plan, it traces arduous travel from the coast into a largely unknown interior, crossing lakes, marshes and swift rapids, and coping with Arctic ice and scarce provisions. The narrative combines day-to-day fieldwork—route-finding, portaging heavy loads, and surviving disasters on rushing water—with natural-history observations, mapping efforts, and encounters with Indigenous and Inuit communities. Chapters follow successive stages of the journey, from scouting and losing the trail to sledge travel over the barrens and the final approach to trading posts, sketching landscape, geology, and the practical challenges of northern exploration.