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From: George Huxtable (no email)
Date: Sat Jun 19 2004 - 03:31:03 EDT
This has little (well, nothing, to be accurate) to do with navigation, but
I've just enjoyed reading "Does anyone read Lake Hazen?", by C. Ian Jackson
(CCI Press, 2002) so much that I feel the need to share it. I couldn't put
it down, and am still chuckling about it.
It's "occasional publication No 53", of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute,
ISBN 1-896445-24-1, so perhaps not the sort of thing you would find on a
railway station bookstall.
You might summarise the story line thus- "Four young graduates manned an
observation station for a year in the very far North of Canada, in 1957.
Not much happened."
However, the anti-Heroic style, and the humour, reminded me strongly of
Eric Newby's "A short walk in the Hindu Kush", my favourite travel book of
all.
Apologies for going off-topic.
George.
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