Reviews for Great Heart The History of a Labrador Adventure

The average rating for Great Heart The History of a Labrador Adventure based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-04-04 00:00:00 James Favieri The next time you're in the field and you whine about how your MSR stove doesn't work or that there's a hole in your gortex, read this book. You'll see what a wuss you really are.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-13 00:00:00 Lara Michell Ok, while not strictly an arctic book, this story that traces three expeditions to the interior of Labrador in 1903 and 1905 had a lot of the same tropes - inexperience, mistakes, starvation. This book drew heavily on diaries of several participants, contemporary newspaper clippings, and other research to document the whole fascinating story. There's the interplay of racial politics at the time, a woman trekking over rough ground and unknown country with mixed-race male guides (scandal!), a possible love story, oh, and people going through stuff that was not mapped. Highly, highly recommended.