The North has always fascinated us. It
has attracted a strange motley of people
to explore it and exploit it. None stranger
than John Hornby, on whose life Snow-
manis based. His Arctic passion was so
intense that it is said he once ran 100
miles overland to join his first expedition
to the pole.
In this novel Hornby meets up with
two modern-day American exiles, Bard
and Claus, who have come Northto es-
cape and to search Together they make
an epic journey, back in time and eon-
seiuusness, into the heart of the Arctic
barrengrounds. There, as Claus wryly
notes in his diary, "the center is every-
where, it s the circumference that s
lacking."
Hornby is an unlikely candidate for
legend. Small and seemingly frail, he
possesses endless energy and a superhu-
man capacity for endurance. Puckish,
plucky, and often comic, he manages to
make a game of starving.
Indians, particularly Indian women,
also play an important part in the story.
So do civil servants, priests and police-
men; their behavior seldom speaks well
of the white man s presence in the
North.
Snowman tells a moving story of sur-
vival and death in the Canadian Arctic.
It is also an eloquent, and often lyrically
evocative, portrait of the land and the
people it dominates.
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