Disappointment River
Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
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Narrateur(s):
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Brian Castner
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Brian Castner
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, only to confront impassable pack ice. In 2016 the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey - and discovered the passage he could not find.
Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports listeners 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 alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change. Eleven years before Lewis and Clark, the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie actually crossed the North American continent with a team of voyageurs and Indian guides. Before that he was the first to discover a route to the Arctic Ocean from the Great Lakes, along the river he named Disappointment because he believed he'd failed in his mission to find a trade route to the riches of the East. In fact he had - he was just two-plus centuries early.
In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels in an 1,125 mile canoe voyage down the river that bears his name, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white-water rapids, and the threat of bears. He transports listeners to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote Native American villages, and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that is quickly becoming a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- Alex White
- 2024-03-29
The up's and downs of the unknown
Amazing listen and recommend it to all people who love history and adventure. It had me hanging in right till the end, love how the author flipped from the past to present! Great read.
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- Marcella Matzeit
- 2020-05-22
Great juxtaposition between the past and the present
I really enjoyed this story, I rarely go for adventure tales but I couldn’t stop listening to this one!
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- J Dave
- 2023-03-14
Great Book
What a great idea to paddle a historical and import river and tell the historic story and your current story together. Mackenzie’s story needs to be better known, the trip alone is only half the story, the encounters tell so much more about the people and how they lived and interacted. Thanks.
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- C.
- 2023-01-03
Midnight Sun From the River!
I enjoyed listening to this book very much. The intersperse of the authors experiences with the historical accounts of Alexander’s was very effective and realistic.
I experienced the Mackenzie River myself in the 70’s as a Smoke Jumper stationed at Fort Simpson. I canoed the river in my limited spare time and flew over the entire length. Yes I jumped out of an airplane while in view of the river, only to land in the river and have to swim ashore. With gear on! It was for practice they said.
Thank you for refreshing my memories, it has been quite emotional book for me!
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- Citoyen
- 2025-03-04
Fun not fact
I enjoy the subject, so more than 1 star, but the book is riddled with errors and untruths. I think its innocent. The author does not know much about the area or Canada, and it shows in his writing. The premise of the book and his trip is essentially "i was a bomtech in Iraq so I can defintely canoe to the Canadian Arctic", an equivalence which as makes as much sense as it sounds, and shows throughout the errors in the book and the authors travels.
This uninformed outsider passes along wisdom of the region, the history and the people which is just as flawed as the premise of his trip. If the Canadian North is new to you, it will be a fun book and you know what, enjoy! Its a cool subject and a nice read if you dont take it too seriously. If you do however know anything about the Canadian North, you'll find yourself scratching your head a lot. Author jammed in a lot of references and historic connections to America that are factually deficient at best, and essentially imaginary at worst.
I read the book while on my own trip in the Mackenzie valley and stayed in a lot of the same places he references in the book. I asked locals about the information and the book and the author's specific trip, which raised some eyebrows. I asked one local specifically about how brave or bold or rare that kind of journey is, and the reply was "not that crazy, happens often, saw some 70 year olds do it last year. Was here when those specific dudes from the book came through, they didnt leave any impression"
In short, I'd say this is less of a memoire or history and more of a novel. If you can read it with your head cocked to one side as fundementally a work of fiction peppered with some real observations, it will be fun. But like... dont presume you are learning more real information about Canada or the North then if you have spent an hour bouncing around on wikipedia.
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