The Lure of the Labrador Wild

By Dillon Wallace

Subjects: Labrador, Biography, Explorers, Biographies, Discoveries in geography, Hubbard, Leonidas, 1872-1903, Découverte et exploration, Newfoundland, Discovery and exploration, Description and travel, Labrador (n.l.), Explorateurs

Description: A New York Lawyer (Dillon Wallace) who has never even been camping agrees to accompany his friend Leonidas Hubbard to a place where truly no one has gone before. This turn-of-the-century adventure begins with Outing Magazine writer Hubbard selling his publisher on the venture to create maps of Labrador's interior to make available to hunters. With no maps available they hire George Elson, a mixed-blood Cree, to help them negotiate the labyrinth of sphagnum moss, sheer granite and icy cold streams to plot Labrador's interior during the only 2 months of summer. Early in the story they make one wrong turn, and the real adventure begins.