A fascinating and inspiring collection of kayaking stories from around the globe by world-renowned adventurer Nigel Foster.
What makes travel special? Perhaps the chill realization that a polar bear's eyes are fixed on you. Maybe it is the chance meeting with a man who buries sharks in a beach, only to dig them up months later, not out of morbid curiosity, but for food. Perhaps it is the undulating w…
"In 1981 Nigel Foster flew to Canada's Baffin Island to begin a solo kayak trip south toward northern Labrador. After becoming the first to cross the 40-mile-wide Hudson Strait, battling howling winds and fighting a 10 knot tide race, Foster crash-landed on a small island in the…
On Polar Tides is the gripping true-life adventure story of kayaking legend Nigel Foster's two unprecedented polar kayaking expeditions along the coast of Northern Labrador; one an epic survival story, which included the first solo crossing of the Hudson Strait, and the second, …