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Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon

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Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon - Hildebrand, John
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"John Hildebrand sets out in a canoe . . . to explore the great riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska. . . . The geography is closely rendered and the characters especially sharply drawn. The country is filled with mad dropouts at river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns, sullen natives in tumbledown villages, cranky old-timers, terrible drunks and worse moralizers who live off the wild landscape and its abundant resources. . . . This is a fine work, and Hildebrand is a fine writer."--Charles E. Little, ...

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Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon 1997, University of Wisconsin Press

ISBN-13: 9780299154943

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Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon 1988, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA

ISBN-13: 9780395424803

Hardcover