An Evening with Explorer Adam Shoalts (Vanished Beyond the Map)

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg

McNally Robinson Booksellers
Publisher/HostMcNally Robinson Booksellers
An Evening with Explorer Adam Shoalts (Vanished Beyond the Map)
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Adam Shoalts, Canada’s greatest modern-day explorer sets out into the arctic wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old, in his new book, Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell (Allen Lane). Join us this evening as Shoalts discusses his book before signing copies for those in attendance.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780735236868/adam-shoalts/vanished-beyond-the-map
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park. Note that this event will not be livestreamed. We hope you’ll join us in person!
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In November 1910, explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilds of the Northwest Territories. Despite clues reported by Inuit trappers and Mounted Police inquiries, his fate remains a mystery. While his disappearance sparked headlines around the world, Darrell’s name would soon also vanish from the history books, ironically, just as surely as he had in the wild. Yet Darrell left behind a trail of letters, journals, and hand-drawn maps. With these faded clues and his zeal for adventure,
Adam Shoalts retraces Darrell’s forgotten routes through the wilderness, searching for cabin ruins and old campsites. He unearths water-stained records and tracks down elderly individuals in the hopes that they might remember someone who’d known Darrell. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person adventure narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expeditions with historical research to solve one of exploration history’s enduring cold cases—the mystery of Hubert Darrell.
Adam Shoalts is a historian, archaeologist, geographer, and Westaway Explorer-in- Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Shoalts holds a PhD from McMaster University where his research examined the influence Indigenous oral traditions had on fur traders in the subarctic and Pacific Northwest. He is also the author of the national bestsellers Alone Against the North, A History of Canada in Ten Maps, Beyond the Trees, The Whisper on the Night Wind, and Where the Falcon Flies. He enjoys long walks in the woods. Follow his adventures on Facebook and Instagram.
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