Prentice G. Downes (1909-1959)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Cockburn, Robert H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1982
• Subjects: Biographies; Canoeing; Downes; Prentice Gilbert; 1909-1959; Ethnography; Explorers; History; Mapping; Psychology; Boothia Peninsula; Nunavut; Great Bear Lake; N.W.T; Great Slave Lake; Kasba Lake; N.W.T./Nunavut; Mackenzie River; Reindeer Lake; Indian; Fitzgerald; East Arm; Brochet; Nueltin Lake; Kasmere Lake; Little Partridge River; Arctic; Chipewyan; eskimo*; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65405

Prentice G. Downes was one of the most singular men to travel in the North in the last years before the 1939-45 War. An able man in the wilderness and a gifted cartographer, ethnologist, and naturalist, he is best remembered as the author of Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man's Travels in th...