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Extreme frontiers : racing across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies / Charley Boorman with Jeff Gulvin.

Boorman, Charley. (Author). Gulvin, Jeff, 1962- (Added Author).

Summary:

Charley Boorman explores the world's second-largest country, home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man. Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing things to the limit. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick; dives through old shipwrecks in the freezing waters off Tobermory; kayaks through the Manitoban wilderness and the swirling rapids of the Bloodvein River; takes a ride through the Badlands of Saskatchewan along Butch Cassidy's old Outlaw Trail; and heads deep into the eerie but beautiful caves of Vancouver Island. But this trip is not just about physical challenges; it's also the perfect opportunity to meet a fascinating group of people. As he heads east to west across Canada, Charley plays ice hockey with a legend of the game; spends a day as a cadet with the Mounties; works with lobster catchers and dinosaur hunters and nearly meets a ghost in Winnipeg.

Record details

ISBN: 9781847445599 (hc.)
ISBN: 1847445594 (hc.)
ISBN: 9781847445605 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 201 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill, map. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: London : Sphere, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:

TV tie-in.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. On the hunt for icebergs -- 2. Shuck and Chuck -- 3. Deliverance -- 4. Something cold and something blue -- 5. Messing about on the ice -- 6. River wild -- 7. Police academy -- 8. Parallel lines -- 9. Old king coal -- 10. Jurassic park -- 11. Three thousand metres and counting -- 12. Ice road -- 13. Chuck in Tuk -- 14. Pickled toes and placers -- 15. Trains, planes and motorbikes -- 16. Underground overground -- 17. Bikes to the bone.