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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | In suburban Arizona, 1965, Connie Helericks announces to her two daughters, 12-year-old Ann and 14-year-old Jean, that "we're going to make a canoe expedition to the Artic Ocean". And for two successive summers that's exactly what they did. This book is the vividly written story of their adventures in the remote northern reaches of Canada and the Arctic, in a twenty-foot canoe, amidst a wondrous and vast landscape. A wilderness adventure, and a story of family bonds and spiritual renewal. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Constance Helmericks | | Paperback: | 291 pages | | Publisher: | Seal Pr | | Publication Date: | 1993-03 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1878067281 | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 5.9 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
1960's Outdoor Adventure - Canoeing in the Arctic Aug 12, 2009
By Kiwi
Published in 1968, "Down the Wild River North" by Constance Helmericks is a a great adventure story of a mother and her two teenage daughters (Ann, 12 and Jean, 14 - later Jean Apsen) canoeing over two summers on the Peace, Slave and Mackenzie River Systems in Northern Canada, down to the Arctic Ocean. It's canoeing and life in the outdoors long before high tech gear was available. Among many other bits and pieces, she wrote of the muddy banks and the difficulty of making landings, especially in swift currents. And also of picking campsites. There's some great descriptions of teenagers as well as of the trip itself. Personally, having reread the book a couple of times over the last few years, I really enjoy it. Constance Helmericks was a good writer and her writing style doesn't date much, unlike some writers of similar books from the same time period. If you're interested in a good entertaining read about canoeing for fun and life in the outdoors in the Canadian North in the 1960's, it's a good pick.
Incidentally, Connie's daughter, Jean Aspen, has also written a book about living (or perhaps more appropriately, surviving) in Bush Alaska called "Arctic Daughter".
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful Classic Wilderness Adventure Jan 04, 2010
By Karen D. Somers
When I first got this book, though I read a lot, I was a bit intimidated by the size of it. I wondered if it was going to drag on and on and put off reading it for awhile.
That was a mistake. I wish it was twice as long.
I got turned on to the book after reading and loving Jean Aspen's two books, Arctic Daughter and Arctic Son. Constance Helmericks was her mother, and Down the Wild River North is the story of how Jean and her sister were saved from their mundane suburban existance by a fearless, adventurous mother who was determined to see that her daughters truly understood what wilderness meant, firsthand.
The story is both fully engaging and well-written. I love the language of that time period, of the '60s. I love the feel of it, of the emotions of leaving security and family behind for a crazy canoe trip down wild rivers that only Indians and trappers dare traverse. This is also an inspirational journey for all those parents who think they can't do things like this with their children. Here is a single parent taking her two kids into situations most of us will never dare....and the transformation of the family is poignant.
I sure wish that there more like this one.
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I LOVE THIS WOMAN! Oct 10, 2009
By Chuckwagon
Connie Helmericks is the bravest, brashest, most adventuresome woman I have ever seen! The woman fears nothing but admits to being "frightened" at times by such trivial things as a polar bear busting through the front door of her snow cabin! (this was from another one of her adventures, "Our Alaskan Winter")
Connie took her 13 and 15 year old daughters on a thousand mile trip down the McKinsey River in Canada to the Arctic Sea! She suffered the growing pains of her daughters and all the inherent hardships of a camping canoe trip of months long duration.
Visiting Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake were just two of many adventuresome milestones during her trip!
Connie Helmericks has the ability to "take you there" with her on her trip! What a splendid writer! I love this woman!
Thank you Connie Helmericks, for writing such an enriching, adventuresome book!
I love this woman! Oct 08, 2009
By Chuckwagon
Connie Helmericks is the bravest, brashest, most adventuresome woman I have ever seen! The woman fears nothing but admits to being "frightened" at times by such trivial things as a polar bear busting through the front door of her snow cabin! (this was from another one of her adventures, "Our Alaskan Winter")
Connie took her 13 and 15 year old daughters on a thousand mile trip down the McKinsey River in Canada to the Arctic Sea! She suffered the growing pains of her daughters and all the inherent hardships of a camping canoe trip of months long duration.
Visiting Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake were just two of many adventuresome milestones during her trip!
Connie Helmericks has the ability to "take you there" with her on her trip! What a splendid writer! I love this woman!
Thank you Connie Helmericks, for writing such an enriching, adventuresome book!
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