{"title":"Books by Adam Shoalts","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780735241015","title":"Where the Falcon Flies","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Epic. . . . The adventure of a lifetime.” \u003ci\u003e—Global News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains. Grabbing his backpack and canoe, Shoalts resolved to follow the falcon’s route north on an astonishing 3,400-kilometre journey to the Arctic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, he faces a huge variety of challenges and obstacles, including storms on the Great Lakes, finding campsites in the urban wilderness of Toronto and Montreal, avoiding busy commercial freighter traffic, gale force winds, massive hydroelectric dams, bushwhacking without trails, dealing with hunger, multiple bear encounters, and navigating white-water rapids on icy northern rivers far from any help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his signature style, Shoalts roams as much across space as he does time, winding his way through a stunning diversity of landscapes ranging from lush Carolinian forests to lonely windswept mountains, salty seas to trackless swamps, pristine lakes to glittering mega-cities, as well as the sites of long ago battles, shipwrecks, forgotten forts, and abandoned trading posts. Through his travels, he reveals how interconnected wild places are, from the loneliest depths of the northern wilderness to busy urban parks, and the vital importance of these connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere the Falcon Flies\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers on an extraordinary armchair adventure that spans five ecoregions and centuries of fascinating history, and is a masterwork by one of Canada’s most successful and audacious authors.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685783478645,"sku":"9780735241039","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43204063166642,"sku":"9780735241015","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780735241039.jpg?v=1792598969"},{"product_id":"9780735236868","title":"Vanished Beyond the Map","description":"\u003cb\u003eCanada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 thousands of kilometres alone and on foot; 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 era’s 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. Despite clues reported by Inuit trappers and Mounted Police inquiries, his fate remains a mystery. While his disappearance sparked headlines around the world, Darrell’s name would soon also vanish from the history books, ironically, just as surely as he had in the wild.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet Darrell left behind a trail of letters, journals, and hand-drawn maps. With these faded clues and his zeal for adventure, Adam Shoalts retraces Darrell’s 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 who’d known Darrell. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person adventure narrative, \u003ci\u003eVanished Beyond the Map\u003c\/i\u003e combines expeditions with historical research to solve one of exploration history’s enduring cold cases—the mystery of Hubert Darrell.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311883006325,"sku":"9780735236868","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780735236868_dc3facbe-eb89-4dfa-be5e-c23bec7d0486.jpg?v=1786014828"},{"product_id":"9780735241060","title":"The Whisper on the Night Wind","description":"A spellbinding adventure about investigating folklore in the wilds from a beloved modern-day explorer.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311883301237,"sku":"9780735241060","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780735241060_b29752e9-0e6a-4651-b0ef-3ca3747e73c7.jpg?v=1786014842"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-adam-shoalts.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}