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| Title: | Denison's Ice Road
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| Author: | Edith Iclauer |
| ISBN: | 1550170414 : 9781550170412 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 236 |
| Weight: | .322 Kg. |
| Published: | Harbour Publishing - December 1991 |
| List Price: | 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | HISTORY: Canada |
In savage blizzards, blinding whiteouts and 60-below-zero temperatures, steel axles snap like twigs; brakes and steering wheels seize up; bare hands freeze when they touch metal. The lake ice cracks and sometimes gives way, so the road-builders drive with one hand on the door, ready to jump. John Denison and his crew waited for the coldest, darkest days of winter every year to set out to build a 520-kilometre road made of ice and snow, from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to a silver mine on Great Bear Lake, above the Arctic Circle -- this is their story. Edith Iglauer was the first outsider ever to accompany them as they worked. This is her chronicle of a gruelling, fascinating journey through Canada's north.
