Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon

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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 Wilderness