• Hardback
  
• First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• 336 pages
• Non-Fiction: History, Travel, Photography
  

Together, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon account for roughly 3,855,000 square kilometres, almost 40% of the total area of Canada.

Yet, less than 85,000 people live in the northland; Inuit and Inuvialuit, Dene and Yukon Indians, and other Canadians of all races and colours. The two northern territories can also offer other superlatives: Mount Logan (6050m), the highest mountain in Canada; Mackenzie River (1800km long), the largest Canadian river; Great Bear Lake (31,400 sqkm), the eighth largest lake in the world; Virginia Falls of the South Nahanni River (96m), the highest waterfall in North America; Baffin Island (507,454 sqkm), the fifth largest island on earth.

And the list could go on.

With Auyuittuq, Ellesmere Island, Nahanni, Wood Buffalo, Kluane, and Northern Yukon national parks and park reserves, many of which have been declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, Canadians can call the world's largest natural preservation areas their own, for the benefit of their children and of all mankind.

This book is a thoroughly researched mosaic in texts and pictures of the last remaining vast wilderness area on this planet, only sparsely inhabited by modest and skilful people with ancient cultures, an area of land and water whose fragile environment is beginning to face grave dangers.