SILVIS, RANDALL - Heart So Hungry; the Extraordinary Expedition of Mina Hubbard Into the Labrador WildernessToronto, ON: Knopf Canada, 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676975860. Illustrated by Maps. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages; "In 1903, following an ambitious expedition to map the interior of Labrador, Mina's husband, Leonidas, dies of starvation in a cold, boggy, wind-scoured landscape. Allegations surface that the expedition failed because of Hubbard's incompetence, so Dillon Wallace, Leonidas' partner on the failed expedition, decides to honour a promise that he made to Hubbard to complete the route that they had been supposed to take. When Mina Hubbard discovers what Wallace has planned, she doubts his motives and decides to mount her own Labrador expedition and to beat Wallace to the finish line. Driven by her devotion, Mina wins the race, beating Wallace by a month and a half, and becomes in the process the first white woman to make contact with the elusive Naskapis Indians.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket . USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3129] Book number 21422is offered by:
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