Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe

Following in the footsteps of Alexander Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark and borrowing from the likes of Thoreau (who traveled through Maine in his own birchbark canoe) and Jerome K Jerome Voyageur is part Three Men in a Boat part Redmond OHanlon. What it certainly is is a return to the essence of travel writing: at the heart of the book is a long difficult journey; here crossing the Canadian Rockies through inhospitable terrain and Native American reservations with a birchbark canoe a diet of desiccated cranberries and buffalo stew and a couple of weary companions in tow. Full of the same brew of irreverence humour and reflection that made Angry White Pyjamas such as success.