434 • REVIEWS MOUNTIE IN MUKLUKS: THE ARCTIC ADVEN-
You will not find Bill White (1905 – 2001) listed in any Arctic bibliographies or biographies. He has, hitherto, appeared in the pages of Henry Larsen’s autobiographical The Big Ship (1967), an account of the Arctic voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch, which gained fame wh...
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| Summary: | You will not find Bill White (1905 – 2001) listed in any Arctic bibliographies or biographies. He has, hitherto, appeared in the pages of Henry Larsen’s autobiographical The Big Ship (1967), an account of the Arctic voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch, which gained fame when Larsen navigated it through the Northwest Passage in 1940 – 42 and again in 1944. That feat made Larsen and St. Roch the second to navigate the passage, in the wake of Roald Amundsen and Gjøa. Bill also wrote his own account of St. Roch’s 1929 maiden voyage to the Arctic, which appeared in Harbour’s regional series Raincoast Chronicles nearly two decades ago. Howard White (1983), the publisher at Harbour and father of Mountie in Mukluks author Patrick White (and no relation to Bill), wrote an earlier book about Bill entitled |
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