{"product_id":"disappointment-river-finding-and-losing-the-northwest-passage-9781101973165","title":"Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Masterful.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDisappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides in an attempt to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named \"Disappointment.\" Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white-water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide-open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money. What he reveals is a world that Alexander Mackenzie dreamed of but could never have fully imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrian Castner is a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer who received a Bronze Star for his service in the Iraq War. He is the author of two books, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Walk \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and \u003ci\u003eAll the Ways We Kill and Die\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and the co-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Road Ahead\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). His journalism and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWired, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVice, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic, \u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Walk\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into an opera that has been performed at prestigious venues nationwide.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414731067666,"sku":"9781101973165","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fd04e2e0-e9b9-42e7-b019-fe477f6520fa.jpg?v=1729380336","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disappointment-river-finding-and-losing-the-northwest-passage-9781101973165","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}