Arctic Solitaire
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Arctic Solitaire

A Boat, a Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear

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Arctic Solitaire

A Boat, a Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear

About this book

Photographer Paul Souders considered himself a lucky guy. He traveled the world and got paid to take pictures. Yet at age fifty he seemed an unlikely explorer. Recently married, he was leading a generally contented life as an urban homebody, ending most days with a cold martini and a home-cooked meal. So how did he find himself alone aboard a tiny boat, enduring bad weather and worse cooking, while struggling to find his way across more than a thousand miles of of Hudson Bay?It was all for a picture. He dreamed of photographing the Arctic's most iconic animal, the polar bear, in its natural habitat. It was a seemingly simple plan: Haul a 22-foot fishing boat northeast a few thousand miles, launch, and shoot the perfect polar bear photo. After an inauspicious start and endless days spent driving to the end of northern Canada's road system, he backed his C-Dory, C-Sick, into a small tributary of Hudson Bay. Battered by winds and plagued by questionable navigation, Paul slowly motored C-Sick north in the hopes of finding the melting summer ice that should be home to more than a thousand polar bears. He struggled along for weeks, grounding on rocks, hiding from storms, and stopping in isolated Inuit villages, until finally, he found the ice and the world was transformed. The ice had brought hundreds of walrus into the bay and dozens of polar bears arrived to hunt and feed. For a few magical days, he was surrounded by incredible wildlife photo ops. He was hooked.A hilarious and evocative misadventure, Arctic Solitaire shares Paul Souders exploits across four summers, six hundred miles of a vast inland sea, and the unpredictable Arctic wilderness—and also offers an insightful look at what compels a person to embark on adventure. The accompanying images of the landscape, people, and wildlife of the remote Hudson Bay region are, in a word, stunning.

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Information

Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781680511055
Edition
0
Subtopic
Historical Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Arctic Solitaire: A Boat, A Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Hudson Bay Map
  7. Repulse Bay and Approaches
  8. Author’s Note
  9. Chapter 1: The Ice Bear
  10. Chapter 2: Beginnings
  11. Chapter 3: Zones of Conflict
  12. Chapter 4: Transitions
  13. Chapter 5: A Hole in the Water
  14. Chapter 6: Directions North
  15. Chapter 7: The River and the Bay
  16. Chapter 8: Big Water
  17. Chapter 9: The Empty Coast
  18. Chapter 10: Pit Stop
  19. Chapter 11: Repulse Bay
  20. Chapter 12: Ice
  21. Chapter 13: Pay Dirt
  22. Chapter 14: The New Year
  23. Chapter 15: The Ice Kingdom
  24. Chapter 16: The Half Shackleton
  25. Chapter 17: A Sinking Feeling
  26. Chapter 18: Round Two
  27. Chapter 19: Chasing Lights
  28. Chapter 20: Foreboding
  29. Chapter 21: Into the Water
  30. Chapter 22: Away We Go
  31. Chapter 23: Prisoner of the Wind
  32. Chapter 24: Latitude 65
  33. Chapter 25: Unwelcome
  34. Chapter 26: The Gift
  35. Chapter 27: Cape Fear
  36. Chapter 28: Unwinding
  37. Chapter 29: Loose Ends
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. About the Author