I'm most of the way through a book called "The Lure of Faraway Places" by Herb Pohl. It reads like a well written series of trip reports recounting his many canoe trips taken in the Canadian bush, many of them solo. The trips he takes are truly incredible; dangerous, difficult, and remote, mostly in northern Labrador but also in present day Nunavut.

It's downright humbling to look at my own canoeing experiences (especially solo) and compare them to Herb's.

Highly recommend it, especially for you solo trippers out there.

quote marsonite:
It's downright humbling to look at my own canoeing experiences (especially solo) and compare them to Herb's.

Highly recommend it, especially for you solo trippers out there. "

I'm humbled being on this site and reading others comments and trip reports. Lot's of great voyageurs here. I'm going to look up that book... thanks!

nctry said very well for me too.

Thanks for the review and recommendation - I've seen the title before and wondered if it was as good as it sounded.

Thanks for the tip. I like books like that.

Thanks for the tip, Marsonite. Ordered a copy from amazon along with a copy of Kevin Callan's "Lost Canoe Routes of Ontario"--might as well muscle up for the free shipping. Great books make winter easier to wait thru!

Got my copy two weeks ago and can't put it down! Have re-read most of the routes atleast twice and the ones above Yellowknife are almost memorized. I am hooked! Herb Pohl really knew how to live! Thanks again for the reference--I owe you!

quote sunnybear09: "Thanks for the tip, Marsonite. Ordered a copy from amazon along with a copy of Kevin Callan's "Lost Canoe Routes of Ontario"--might as well muscle up for the free shipping. Great books make winter easier to wait thru! "

love his lost canoe routes book but they are all so short. i couldnt justify the drive that far north and east. steel river maybe.