Journey To The Edge Of The World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 308 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a 10-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the Northwest Passagea fabled route deep within the Arctic Circle that has thwarted explorers and fortune-hunters for centuries. For Cook, Drake, and countless other adventurers, the Northwest Passage has been an alluring but impossible journey, a trial of unparalleled physical and mental strength, a haunting and fascinating wilderness. Now the Arctic is melting at a rate of 36,000 square miles a year and the journey is finally possible. For the first time, if youre quick, you can sail freely, if precariously, from Newfoundland right round to Vancouver. By plane, rail, road. and boat, along coastlines and across sweeping landscapes that represent the final Northern frontier of the inhabited world for both man and beast, Billys adventure will embrace a memorable mix of bizarre encounters, Hemingway-esque characters, incredible wildlife, forgotten languages, big game hunting, and all night carousing under the midnight sun. And hes taking us with him.

ISBN: 9780755318858