Great Heart: A History of a Labrador Adventrue By James West Davidson and John Rugge. In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard was commissioned by an outdoor magazine to explore Labrador by canoe. Joined by his best friend, Dillion Wallace, and a Scots-Cree guide, George Elson, Hubbard hoped to make a name for himself as an adventurer. Plagued by poor judgement and bad luck, his party turned back and Hubbard died of starvation just thirty miles from camp. Two years later, Hubbard's widow, Mina, and Wallace returned to Ladrador, leading rival expeditions to complete the original trek and fix blame for earlier failure. Their race made headlines from New York to Nova Scotia--and it makes fascinating reading today in this widely acclaimed reconstruction of the epic saga.
