Will I love True North?

Elliott Merrick's True North literally transported me to the true wilderness of Labrador and allowed me to feel the wonder, the challenges, the beauty, and the pain of those early trappers and First People inhabitants who survived one of the harshest environments on earth. The prose verged often on poetry, and the description was truly transcendent.

It’s a richly lyrical, indeed Thoreauvian account of life in Labrador in the late 1920s. Among other things, the author and his life go on a long trek in the dead of winter and experience a remarkably different way of life – and mostly a rewarding one – from their previous way of life down south. I might add that the now-deceased author was a dear friend of mine.