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Magnetic North

I'd read this book a while ago but not sure if I wrote about it.
As always, we were travelling(I don't remember where-maybe Alaska) & I picked up this book attracted by the name. I had no idea it was non fiction.
So, I just started reading the book hoping to just browse & just drop it back(I had so much planning to do for my actual trip).
Turned out that for 2-3 days all I ever did was read the book. Thankfully, I had leftovers & did not bother eating much anyway. When I was not reading, I loyally left the book beside me. Next to me while I ate, slept. You won't believe...I even took it to the restroom with me(I have this tradition only with J K Rowling's Harry Potter series!!!).
This book narrates a young man's adventure & quest for the wild that Canada was. When he was at college, all he wanted to do was travel across the mighty country that we call Canada all by foot, canoe & dogsled. So, when he dropped out of school, he started his mission with 5 others who dropped out in just a couple hundred miles of the journey. In the journey of a couple thousand miles over 2 years, he got 2 friends, one a photographer & hiker who saved his life once & a dog that almost died waiting for his almost dead self to come back for him.
It is a page turner & definitely a life changer at least at some level. It also depicts how wild & fierce nature is. Humans should feel humiliated!
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