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Newspaper Article
Adventure becomes journey of self-discovery
2002
Overview
The event that was to change her life and take her into one of the world's most hostile and unforgiving areas was a chance encounter with an old issue of National Geographic. It contained excerpts from the diaries of a remarkable woman named Mina Hubbard, a young Canadian widow determined to honour the memory of her husband, Leonidas Hubbard, who had perished of cold and starvation in 1903 during an aborted canoe journey into the uncharted heart of Labrador. Two years after her husband's death, Mina Hubbard successfully completed that journey, travelling with three guides on a wilderness adventure that took her 960 kilometres north from Goose Bay to the shores of Ungava Bay. [Alexandra Pratt] was \"seduced\" by Mina's extraordinary story - a story compelling enough to bring this young English journalist across the ocean to a basement archive at Newfoundland's Memorial University where she confronted the full text of the woman's century-old diary. At first she was scarcely conscious of the compulsion taking hold of her, but she feels now that there was an inevitability in her decision to relive Mina's journey into a mysterious, primeval land. \"It was sometime between her diary in St. John's and travelling to Labrador and meeting the people there that it happened. Certainly by the time I got on the ferry to leave Labrador I knew I was going to do the trek.\" Photo: Southam News / ADVENTURE: Alexandra Pratt is a young British journalist with a zest for adventure, so when she set out by canoe to journey into the unforgiving Labrador wilderness, she saw it initially as the most adventurous experience of her young life. Instead the trek turned into a haunting journey of self-discovery - \"physical, personal, emotional, spiritual, political\" - and her new book about what happened (just published in Canada by Harper Collins) is definitely not the book she originally intended to write. ;
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