Author: Edith Iglauer. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC., 1974 1st Edition, (Reprinted in 2009). Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 237 pages.
DENISON'S ICE ROAD, An Adventure Story by Edith Iglauer, is the true story of how John Denison and his crew wait for the coldest, darkest days of winter every year to set out to build a 520-kilometre road made of ice and snow, from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to a silver mine on Great Bear Lake, above the Arctic Circle.
In savage blizzards, blinding whiteouts and 60-below-zero temperatures, steel axles snap like twigs; brakes and steering wheels seize up; bare hands freeze when they touch metal. The lake ice cracks and sometimes gives way, so the roadbuilders drive with one hand on the door, ready to jump, and Edith Iglauer was the first outsider ever to accompany them as they worked.
