- Foreword by Bruce Cockburn
- 21 essays about varied experiences and perspectives gleaned by paddling across North America
- 45 images, including photos, artwork, and maps
Recipient of Eric Hoffer Award - Best Short Story/Anthology: Culture
Recipient of Next Generation Indy Book Awards - Best Anthology:Science/Nature/Environment
Finalist of the Whistler Independent Book Awards - Best Non-Fiction
"In an age of hedonistic adventure-seekers and unrestrained bush-crafters, we finally have an authoritative chronicle of the theoretical adventure, an abstract of exploration in a higher form."
-Hap Wilson
"...you might feel the invitation to hear the elements, air and water, speaking to you, and only to you, in a language you share only with them, inviting you to step out into a grand relationship with the life of the world, and your ancestors, and your own place in the bigness of it all."
-Bruce Cockburn
"But then we surely would have missed discovering the greatest gifts of all: the profound joy of stillness, the rewards of patience, the depth and enormous comfort of this precious time, lingering in place with long-time friends rather than always moving towards the unreachable and ever-receding horizon."
-Beth Foster, Chapter 3 - Right Turn at the First Muskox
