Edith Iglauer

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“There is a road made of snow and ice that exists only in winter, in a marvelous part of Canada so strange, so far north that hardly anybody lives there. The road forges an overland link in the Northwest Territories between two of the world’s largest inland seas: Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake, on the Arctic Circle. The length of the road changes each winter with all the troubles encountered during construction, but it usually runs for about 325 miles, some of them a little rugged.

The creator of this road of snow and ice is a lanky, laconic, sometimes humorous Canadian in his fifties, named John Denison, whose family motto is the Latin word, Perseverando. Perseverance was Denison’s outstanding trait during the ten years he was engaged in his eccentric specialty of building winter roads where no one else dared to make them...”

“A superb, shivery, beautifully written adventure story.”
“The reader, if he or she doesn’t watch out, will succumb to (Iglauer’s) affection for Canada’s ‘true north’ - a disease that people up there call Arctic Fever, and say is incurable.”
“Iglauer’s memoir is exceptional above all for how well she listens, gets under the skin of men habitually gruff and taciturn, who resent her presence all the more because she is a woman. And there is no denying the courage it takes for her to stick out the trip.”
“The writing is as raw and austere as the land she describes, and in its way, filled with the same richness and almost hypnotic power. Her extraordinary story is one of men and machines pushed to the limits of endurance.”
“Her book...proves to be more captivating and exciting than any piece of fiction.”
“The only outsider, male or female, to make this hazardous trip with John Denison and his crew and she has written about her adventure with total recall and an artist’s eye...I wish to state publicly that I was scared...there were a couple of times when my hands quite literally shook with excitement and fear that these intrepid workers and their heroic boss would never make it.”
“It’s one hell of a story.”
“A story in the heroic mold, and Edith Iglauer tells it without ornamentation as a good journalist should...A heck of an adventure story”
“You may have to put on your long underwear and parka to read it, but you will not put it down until Denison finally completes his ice road.”
“A revealing and riveting book...’I’d like to see all this written down. The way it really happens, (Denison said). In Denison’s Ice Road he has his wish.”