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The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic

Format: Paperback
Author: Edward Beauclerk Maurice
ReleaseDate: 01 November, 2006
Publisher: Mariner Books
Rating:

incredible read
An amazing tale of adventure, friendship, and loyalty. An amazing account of a young man stepping up to the plate of life in a difficult environment requiring not only daring and tenacity, but incredible personal and political skills not usually inherent in a man of his age.

If you like outdoor adveture in the Arctic, this is a great book
. I really enjoyed reading about Inuit life back in the early fur trading days.

A book to lift your state of mind
The fact that it is a memoir rather than fiction is no small part of this revelation. It's hard to imagine anyone taking an honest read of this book without it having stirred deeply buried ideas about morality and decency.

The prose is pure: Maurice never resorts to sarcasm or satire to make a point. He describes angry moments, but never tirades. In fact -- and I hope this engenders curiousity more than disdain in this era of high regard for irony -- he doesn't even employ irony to tell his beautiful story, except that which emerges naturally about the chasm between humans and nature. He doesn't tell secrets about the characters that the narrator doesn't know first hand. And while paternal, in full synch with the culture of that time, Maurice isn't in any way righteous. Purity could also describe the structure of the storytelling. One never gets the sense that comes with the (extreme) genre example of "Dances with Wolves" -- no gratuitous yanking of emotional chains.

A magnificent and edifying book.

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