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Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near...

A centuries-long story of adventure runs through the Boundary Waters. Stretching from northern Minnesota into the Canadian Shield, this lake-dappled expanse--long an Indigenous homeland and later also a fur trading hub--is the most visited designated wilderness in North America, with more than 200,000 people dipping their paddles into its ancient waterways each year. Bridging the legendary arctic expeditions of the nineteenth century and the making...