Sleeping island the story of one mans travels in the great barren lands of the canadian north downes p g prentice gilbert 9780888332561 books amazonca. Sleeping island the story of one mans travels in the great barren lands of the canadian north first edition by prentice g downes 2004 12 01 prentice g downes books amazonca. Sleeping island is the sensitively written and moving account of one of his trips a journey made in 1939 to remote and at that time unmapped nueltin lake in sleeping island downes records a north that was soon to be no more a landscape and a people barely touched by white men. Sleeping island the story of one mans travels in the great barren lands of the canadian north books amazonca. Sleeping island book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers in an age when bush planes and outboard motors were opening up previously