Geoffrey SmithGeoffrey McRae Smith has had extensive experience in wilderness canoeing, including being a canoeing guide for the Boy Scout's High Adventure Base in Miane. He first glimpsed the Barren Lands in 1967, an encounter that profoundly affected his life. I spurred him to canoe many wild rivers of the north and to work and recreate in the Arctic of both the Canada and Alaska. He published his first book about a sole canoe trip in America's most northerly mountain Range called Spine of the Arctic: A Solo Canoe Expedition through Alaska's Brooks Range. Read More Read Less