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Vanished beyond the map : the mystery of lost explorer Hubert Darrell / Adam Shoalts.
"Canada's greatest adventurer sets out into the wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old. In November 1910, legendary explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilderness of the North West Territories. Darrell was surveying and filling in blanks on existing maps in the western Arctic near the Anderson River. Newspapers as far afield as Los Angeles and New York covered his disappearance, but despite clues reported by Dene trappers and Mounted Police inquiries, his fate remains a mystery. While his disappearance sparked headlines, Darrell would soon also vanish, ironically, from the pages of history. Using archival material and his zeal for adventure, Shoalts retraces parts of Darrell's routes and searches for clues to his disappearance in order to bring his story to light for the first time. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person travel narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expedition with historical research to solve one of exploration history's enduring cold cases ... the mystery of Hubert Darrell."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780735236868 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 268 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Allen Lane, 2025.
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| Subject: | Darrell, Hubert, approximately 1874-approximately 1910. Explorers > Canada > Biography. Northwest Territories > Discovery and exploration. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- Penguin Putnam
Canadaâs greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old.
In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. A prospector who had been swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, Darrell later made his name as an expert guide, trapper, and restless wanderer who ventured where few others dared. At a time when travel by dogsled in the North was the norm, Darrell became legendary for traversing alone and on foot thousands of kilometres; ranging over mountains and across windswept tundra from Alaska to Hudson Bay. During his epic journeys, he helped rescue sailors trapped in sea ice, led Mounties on their patrols, and even guided some of the eraâs most famous explorers. Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole, held Darrell in awe, remarking once that with men like him, he could go to the moon. Contemporaries regarded Darrell as the hardiest, most competent explorer of his day. Alone, Darrell set off to map a remote region of the western Arctic near the Anderson River but never returned. Despite clues reported by Inuit trappers and Mounted Police inquiries, his fate remains a mystery. While his disappearance sparked headlines around the world, ironically soon Darrellâs name would also vanish from the history books, just as surely as he had in the wild.
Yet Darrell left behind a trail of letters, journals, and hand-drawn maps. With these faded clues and his zeal for adventure, Adam Shoalts retraces Darrellâs forgotten routes through the wilderness, searching for cabin ruins and old campsites. He unearths water-stained records and tracks down elderly individuals in the hopes that they might remember someone whoâd known Darrell. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person adventure narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expeditions with historical research to solve one of exploration historyâs enduring cold casesâthe mystery of Hubert Darrell.
