Cold Summer Wind

by Clayton Klein

This true-life adventure story, set in the wilds of Canada’s Northwest Territories, is the narrative of a father and son team who have canoed more than 3,000 miles above the sixtieth parallel. Cold... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096115960X
• ISBN13: 9780961159603
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Wilderness House Books
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Cold Summer Wind/Klein

First person narrative of four canoe trips through the Barren Lands of Canada over a period of years by Clayton Klein and his son. Obviously written by an amateur, this in itself imparts a degree of "right there" reality. The Kleins don't come off as intrepid explorers, but neither do they appear as bumbling dolts; they are a pair of experienced canoists traveling across one of the most desolate places on earth (and I know, I've been there myself). They see things the way normal people would, and their descriptions are much the same, with natural curiosity and wonder. The only fault I would take is that their quoted dialogues don't ring quite true; they sound as though they were scripted or at least proof read for publication. Anyone who has done a canoe trip will appreciate what they saw and did, and anyone who hasn't will know what it's like. There is also a Cold Summer Wind II.