I just received this notification from the publishers:
Distant Summers
P. G. Downes’ Journals of Travels in Northern Canada, 1936-1947
by P. G. Downes (author of Sleeping Island)
Edited by R. H. Cockburn
With nearly 100 illustrations and 8 maps
Distant Summers (Vol I) contains the accounts of P. G. Downes’ 1936 and 1937 trips in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and of his 1938 journey to Great Bear and Great Slave lakes. Downes wrote a classic of northern canoe travel, Sleeping Island, originally published in 1943. This is the first time his remarkably detailed journals have appeared in book format. Volume II is forthcoming from McGahern Stewart Publishing.
Title: Distant Summers: P. G. Downes' Journals of Travels in Northern Canada, 1936-1947 (Vol I: 1936-1938)
Author: P. G. Downes
Editor: R. H. Cockburn
Publication Information: McGahern Stewart Publishing, Ottawa, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9868600-2-7
Price: 26.00
Available exclusively from McGahern Stewart Publishing.
To order:
613-230-2275
mcspublishing@gmail.com-jmc