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River of the Gitchie Manitou
Paperback
Publisher: Clara M Everhart
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Arctic adventure. Aviation frontier. River-runner legend.
While Norman Grant and Roy Moulton chase glory in their airship the Gitchie Manitou, a rival machine - sleek, secret, and financed by a fur baron with a grudge - is racing them to Fort McMurray by way of the Athabasca River. Riding the sturgeon-head batteaux with the last great steersmen of the North is seventeen-year-old Étienne La Biche, son of the legendary riverman, who has spent his life reading rapids instead of maps and who trusts a paddle more than a propeller.
When Colonel Howell's expedition and a shadow expedition converge on the same stretch of wilderness, Étienne is pulled into a world of aeroplanes, blizzards, wolf packs, fur-trade conspiracy, and a vanished prospector's cache that could ruin the Hudson's Bay Company's grip on the frozen North. He must survive the rapids of the Grand Rapids portage, outrun a rival brigade, decode a dead man's map, and decide whether the future belongs to the river or the sky - before winter closes the Arctic like a fist.
Arctic adventure novel - aeroplane pulp fiction - Athabasca River rapids - Hudson's Bay Company fur trade - Cree and Métis voyageurs - steersman legend - airship race - wilderness survival - blizzard expedition - frontier Canada 1913 - coming-of-age north - sturgeon-head batteau - Fort McMurray - caribou and musk ox hunt - lost prospector's gold - Northwest Territories exploration - boy adventurers - rival expedition thriller - snowbound mystery - early aviation history - companion novel - spin-off saga
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