Grinnell, George James. Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic.(Brief article)(Book review)

* Grinnell, George James. Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic. North Atlantic. Apr. 2010. c.296p, illus, bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-55643-882-D. pap. $17.95. AUTOBIOG

Judges, such as this reviewer, are often asked to evaluate the veracity and credibility of distant accounts of misadventure culminating in a death. No one who reads this story should entertain any doubt as to the scrupulous accuracy of this narrative, which chronicles the author's 1955 journey through the Canadian arctic with four friends. Bad planning left them without food or adequate warmth as winter closed in, and the group leader eventually died of hypothermia. …