I recently finished Robin Esrock’s wonderful Great Northern Canada Bucket List. It’s my 11th book finished this year, exceeding my goal of 10. I’ve finished a couple of others but haven’t kept up with the posts.
If you’re interested in this great country we live in, you’ll love this delightful book. It’s packed with some of the coolest - not a temperature reverence - travel adventures you can imagine. It’s even better if you’ve been to the far north and have done some of these things.
Esrock has experienced the Klondike Trail and the Chilkoot Trail, driven the Dempster HIghway, explored Canada’s largest national park (Wood Buffalo), followed in the footsteps of the John Franklin expedition, slept under the midnight sun, and swallowed a sourtoe cocktail. We did some of those things on a recent Yukon trip; the sourtoe cocktail is a trip and life highlight for me (google if it you can stomach the description and photos).
The far north contains some of Canada’s wildest, most desolate, most untouched landscapes. few Canadians see the country’s third sea coast, and animal migrations (hundreds of thousands of caribou) that rival those of the African plains. An extensive trip to these places is not cheap but if you’re so inclined, there are companies that take small groups to various northern places.
This book is one of a series that Esrock has written. (He’s a terrific writer.) For some reason, we have two copies of his Great Canadian Bucket List book, which is broken into sections for each province and territory.
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