ISBN:
1550170414
Language:
English
Pages:
237 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
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22 cm
Edition:
First Harbour Publishing edition
Keywords:
Landschaft
;
Eisstraße
;
Straßenbau
;
Großer Sklavensee
;
Großer Bärensee
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Northwest Territories
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Erlebnisbericht [zwischen 1950 und 1970]
;
Northwest Territories
;
Straßenbau
;
Eisstraße
;
Großer Sklavensee
;
Großer Bärensee
;
Northwest Territories
;
Landschaft
Abstract:
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 roadbuilders 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
Note:
Früheres Copyright: 1974
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