McKendry, Amy

The author's first taste of trackless wilderness occurred when he hiked the Long Range Traverse in Grosse Morne National Park in Newfoundland and Labrador. Shortly after this he began retracing the Hubbard and Wallace Saga after reading Dillon Wallace's "The Lure of the Labrador Wild." His good friend Gerard Kenney, an author of books on the North, lent him the book and the two of them the following summer in 1999, canoed up Grand Lake and portions of the Naskaupi and Susan Rivers. Little by little the author retraced about half of the 1903 trip forming the basis for "The Lure of the Labrador