Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage By Brian Castner

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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual 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 alteration by the dual forces of globalization and climate 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, 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. 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.

At this time of writing, The Ebook Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage has garnered 9 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Ebook is Good TO READ!

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I assumed the book had to do with geography and the failed search for the northwest passage. That turns out to be side issue. We don’t get much in the way of geography; we get a pieced-together history of MacKenzie’s life and his travel to the end of the river named for him, which at least makes for interesting history. MacKenzie’s failure turns out to be instructive, and maps could have made the issue crystal clear to those no familiar with the issue.Regarding what could have been an interesting book on geography, there are two maps, one more general and one more specific; they are printed on the inside covers (duplicated) front and rear. They show perhaps 10% of the locations mentioned in the ~350 pages of text. And have no scales.John McPhee got away with that 30 years ago when he published his New Yorker articles in book form; at the time, it was déclassé to include illustrations amidst the text. And then his writing was sufficient to release him from guilt; when he was hooking shad on the upper Delaware, the writing told you where he was. Castner has not nearly McPhee’s skills as a writer, nor his reasons to exclude illustrations.Interspersed, and seemingly the primary subject, we get “bud-book” of personal friendships and travails on a long and arduous journey. Where we might have gotten some of those missing maps, we get photos of those who each traveled part-way with him.I don’t know Castner and really have no desire to know him. If you are interested in Brian Castner, you will be pleased with this book. If you are hoping for a book on the river and the man for whom it is named, not so much.

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