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About the book "Stepping Stones of Ungava and Labrador" by Nigel Foster
Tutjat (Stepping Stones) is the Inuit name for the islands in Hudson Strait
north of Labrador. Legend tells how Inuit once followed these stepping stones
and discovered people living on Baffin Island. In 1981 Nigel Foster kayaked
this route south, crossing the forty miles wide Hudson Strait solo. Trapped
by fall storms he cut short his trip and hitchhiked south aboard an oil
tanker.
In 2004 he returned with Kristin Nelson to finish the trip. Starting at
Kuujjuaq, Ungava Bay, they crammed food for five weeks into two sea kayaks
and began their 675-mile wilderness journey after the pack-ice cleared in
July.
Dodging polar bears the couple negotiated the phenomenal tides of Ungava Bay
and the squalls of Labrador’s mountains. Traveling to the boom of calving
icebergs and the call of loons in the fog, and camping at night beneath the
snaking curtains of the aurora borealis, they gained a unique perspective on
the world’s vanishing wilderness.
(Stepping Stones is published by Outskirts Press)
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