How then am I so different
from the first men through this way?
Like them, I left a settled life,
I threw it all away,
To seek a Northwest Passage
at the call of many men,
To find there but the road back home again.

--Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage

 

 

 

 

Notes and acknowledgements

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