Beyond the Trees

National Bestseller“[Shoalts] brings us along on his solo journey across the Arctic, infused with the wonder of seeing this majestic land and the urgency of making it back before winter sets in.”—Toronto Star“Ample moments of adrenaline and suspense and descriptions of breathtaking natural beauty in his voyages, but it’s his thirst for the unknown—the blank spots—that resonated.” —The New York Review of Books“Adam Shoalts takes readers across the rugged Canadian landscape … the trek was considered to be a near-impossible feat to achieve … a beyond riveting adventure memoir that’ll keep readers hooked until the very end.” —CNN“When reading Beyond the Trees, one gets the impression of author Adam Shoalts as a kind of Jack Kerouac meets Jack Reacher: an obsessive wanderer at his calmest in the midst of catastrophe.” —Atlantic Books Today“[Beyond the Trees] might just soothe your need for adventure… . wonder-filled … [a] beautiful book.” —BuzzFeed “… the adventure of a lifetime [told] in thrilling detail.” —TVO “A wild adventure … riveting.”—Montreal Gazette “[A] rousing adventure story.” —Canada.com“[An] homage to the wilds of the Canadian North… . If you love an outdoor adventure, Beyond the Trees is for you.” —Kamloops Matters

Adam Shoalts is a historian, archaeologist, geographer, and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Shoalts holds a PhD from McMaster University where his research examined the influence Indigenous oral traditions had on fur traders in the subarctic and Pacific Northwest. He is also the author of the national bestsellers Alone Against the North, A History of Canada in Ten Maps, Beyond the Trees, The Whisper on the Night Wind, and Where the Falcon Flies. He enjoys long walks in the woods.

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