Seven Campfires to the Nahanni by Soukup 9780228824794 | Brand New

The fame of the river Nahanni is today spread throughout the world and it draws many adventurous souls. The author first heard this name a long time ago, still in his birth country of Czech Republic. Yet, in variation to practically all the visitors who are brought to this river's banks by expensive and noisy floatplanes, he chose a different approach: the one that people used to travel during the times of Indigenous Peoples' migrations, discovery explorations and trade throughout Canada; during the era when large birch bark canoes propelled by the paddles of voyageurs transported loads of fur across the almost full width of the continent; during the time when only water bodies and the portage trails connecting them served as arteries, veins and capillaries of travel through Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. After he immigrated to Canada in 1968, obtained a doctorate in Nuclear Physics from the University of Alberta and raised a family in Edmonton, a window of opportunity for th