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Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon
Reading the River A Voyage Down the Yukon Author:John Hildebrand 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... more », terrible drunks and worse moralizers who live off the wild landscape and its abundant resources ... « less