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Cold burial : a true story of endurance and disaster / Clive Powell-Williams

by Clive Powell-Williams

Reconstructs the fatal 1926 journey of three adventurers attempting to survive the Barren Grounds of the Canadian Northwest Territories. The account is drawn from a journal discovered two years after their deaths.

Accession 19824 ISBN 0312288549 Publisher St. Martin's Press
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