Great Heart. The History of a Labrador Adventure.

North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 2000 Hard cover, Octavo (5 ½" x 8 ⅜"). pp xii 386. In publisher's quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine. With photographic plates. Condition: Near Fine. Includes publisher's letter to subscribers. *** "Great Heart" is the story of Leonidas Hubbard (1872-1903), Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) and the Scots-Cree George Elson (c1875-c1950), who set out on an expedition in Labrador, Canada in 1903. Their goal was to navigate by canoe from Lake Melville to Michikamau Lake via the Naskaupi River. They were woefully unprepared for the trip - so much so that the took the wrong river at the start, and ended up in unnavigable waters and were forced to turn back. Running out of provisions, Hubbard died from either starvation of exhaustion. With Introduction by Bill McKibben. *** The Adventure Library was a series of 30 books sold by subscription between 1994 and 2003. The series was the brainchild of Edward Livermore Burlingame, an American publishing executive, who put up his own money to kickstart the company. He had been looking for something new to accomplish, and thought that the classic works of exploration were being overlooked by the reading public, because there were no new editions. This is book 23 in the series.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine.