By Truck to the North: My Arctic Adventure (Adventure Travel) - Softcover

Turnbull, Andy; Pearson, Debora

9781550375503: By Truck to the North: My Arctic Adventure (Adventure Travel)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550375504 ISBN 13: 9781550375503

Publisher: Annick Press, 1998

"A bone-chilling silence filled the truck. We were north of the Arctic Circle on a road made of ice -- not pavement or gravel like a regular road, just a bumpy surface of frozen water. Under the ice flowed dangerous waters, deep enough to drown in -- if the shocking cold didn't kill you first. I glanced out the window and shivered..."

Adventure is just around the corner when you climb aboard an 18-wheeler and join Andy Turnbull on his eye-opening trip to the Arctic. You're along for the ride as he befriends a trucker's dog, views the Northern Lights, gets caught in a whiteout, and explores the ice roads of the Far North. Short sidebars of information that accompany Andy's story reveal what's inside a truck's cab, why camels once carried goods through this part of North America, what kids love about live in the Arctic, and much more. Colourful maps (essential traveler's tools) help you follow Andy's route chapter by chapter!

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About the Author:

Andy Turnbull is a writer and photographer who frequently travels with truckers while on assignment through-out the world. His articles about life on the road have been published in newspapers and magazines in Germany, Japan, Australia, Great Britain, and North America.

Debora Pearson is the author of several children's books and an editor whose work has received highest honours from the Parent's Choice Foundation and the Educational Press Association of America. Debora is the co-author of 52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure., and Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure,.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-8-Ever wonder what a trip in a truck across frozen rivers beyond the Arctic Circle would be like? Turnbull describes his adventures accompanying Bill Rutherford, a produce merchant and long-distance trucker, on a trip from Vancouver, British Columbia, to the Arctic villages of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk in the dead of winter. The book is full of interesting facts about their journey, which entails driving through the "Arctic desert" and across ice roads that are actually frozen rivers. A near-miss encounter with a moose prompts inset information on this animal. Tidbits about the Gold Rush add historical background to the trucker's route. Visually appealing maps, fact inserts, and full-color photographs appear throughout the fascinating text, and pertinent Web sites are appended. This book brings the history and geography of the Arctic and the world of long-distance truck driving to life. Children will be intrigued by the idea of trekking around the world; both By Truck to the North and its companion title, 52 Days by Camel (Annick, 1998), by Lawrie Raskin and Pearson, are fine titles to launch junior adventurers and/or reluctant readers into the excitement of reading.
Mollie Bynum, formerly at Chester Valley Elementary School, Anchorage, AK
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