Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476745161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In 1853, in the farthest outpost of the Czar’s empire, four Scandinavian indentured servants—seven-year men no better off than slaves—resolve to escape from Russian Alaska. They steal an Indian canoe and point it south toward Astoria, in Oregon, twelve hundred miles away. This novel of audacity is based on a historical incident discovered by the author, and transformed by his imagination into a sustained sweep of adventure. The four sea runners must weather the worst the ill-named Pacific can throw at them, and must weather their own fierce squalls, too, as day upon day, guided as much by instinct and determination as by map, they paddle through the magnificent maze of the Northwest Coast toward the mouth of the Columbia River.
The Sea Runners
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476745161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In 1853, in the farthest outpost of the Czar’s empire, four Scandinavian indentured servants—seven-year men no better off than slaves—resolve to escape from Russian Alaska. They steal an Indian canoe and point it south toward Astoria, in Oregon, twelve hundred miles away. This novel of audacity is based on a historical incident discovered by the author, and transformed by his imagination into a sustained sweep of adventure. The four sea runners must weather the worst the ill-named Pacific can throw at them, and must weather their own fierce squalls, too, as day upon day, guided as much by instinct and determination as by map, they paddle through the magnificent maze of the Northwest Coast toward the mouth of the Columbia River.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476745161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In 1853, in the farthest outpost of the Czar’s empire, four Scandinavian indentured servants—seven-year men no better off than slaves—resolve to escape from Russian Alaska. They steal an Indian canoe and point it south toward Astoria, in Oregon, twelve hundred miles away. This novel of audacity is based on a historical incident discovered by the author, and transformed by his imagination into a sustained sweep of adventure. The four sea runners must weather the worst the ill-named Pacific can throw at them, and must weather their own fierce squalls, too, as day upon day, guided as much by instinct and determination as by map, they paddle through the magnificent maze of the Northwest Coast toward the mouth of the Columbia River.
The Sea Runners
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547416598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In this timeless survival story, four indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to face a harrowing journey down the Pacific Northwest coast. Battling unrelenting high seas and fierce weather from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, the men struggle to avoid hostile Tlingit Indians, to fend off starvation and exhaustion, and to endure their own doubt and distrust. Based on an actual incident in 1853, The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547416598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In this timeless survival story, four indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to face a harrowing journey down the Pacific Northwest coast. Battling unrelenting high seas and fierce weather from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, the men struggle to avoid hostile Tlingit Indians, to fend off starvation and exhaustion, and to endure their own doubt and distrust. Based on an actual incident in 1853, The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.
The Sea Runners
Author: Ralph Hayes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780505516473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780505516473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Fly Fishing for Sea-Run Cutthroat
Author: Chester Allen
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811745686
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Finding the perfect beach to fish and learning its secrets.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811745686
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Finding the perfect beach to fish and learning its secrets.
The Mysteries of the Ocean ... Translated, Edited and Enlarged by W. H. Davenport Adams ... New Edition, Revised
Author: Arthur MANGIN
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
All the Rivers Run into the Sea
Author: Kathleen Stauffer
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449711197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Karens love of the water started as a child, when her family visited Lake Itascathe very beginning of the Mississippi River. As a child, she understood that we come from God, and we return to God much like a river and its source. With all its twists and turns, a river is fascinating yet unpredictable, like life. From the book: We all meet someone in life who affects us for the rest of our life whether we want them to or not. For me, it was Bill; then it was Martin; then it was Dan; and then it was ____. You see how it goes. We find ourselves longing for someone or something that is not. Is it because we do not know how to love? Karens story may cause you to reconsider what love really is. Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449711197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Karens love of the water started as a child, when her family visited Lake Itascathe very beginning of the Mississippi River. As a child, she understood that we come from God, and we return to God much like a river and its source. With all its twists and turns, a river is fascinating yet unpredictable, like life. From the book: We all meet someone in life who affects us for the rest of our life whether we want them to or not. For me, it was Bill; then it was Martin; then it was Dan; and then it was ____. You see how it goes. We find ourselves longing for someone or something that is not. Is it because we do not know how to love? Karens story may cause you to reconsider what love really is. Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology
Author: Matthew Fontaine Maury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
A Run Round the World; Or, The Adventures of Three Young Americans
Author: Henry Lyell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description