Canadian explorer Hubert Darrell disappeared somewhere in the Northwest Territories in 1910 while on a solo expedition to map the largely uncharted western Arctic.

A search of the northern wilderness turned up no trace, and the most celebrated Arctic explorer of his day soon vanished from the history books.

Until now.

More than a century later, author and adventurer Adam Shoalts ventured into the same perilous land that swallowed up his predecessor, following clues he hoped would shed light on Darrell’s fate.

Shoalts chronicled the search in his new book, “Vanished Beyond the Map,” which launched Oct. 14 at the Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton before an event in the author’s home region of Norfolk County on Oct. 19.

“He was a legend in the north,” Shoalts said of Darrell, who joined the K

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