The Sea Runners Doig IvanPaperback
The Sea Runners Doig IvanPaperback Based on an actual incident in 1853, award-winning author Ivan Doig's The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom. Battling…
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The Sea Runners Doig IvanPaperback
Based on an actual incident in 1853, award-winning author Ivan Doig's The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom. 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. "Goes beyond being 'about' survival and becomes, mile by terrible mile, the experience itself."--New York Times Book ReviewIn 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.
And not the least of its charms is the liveliness with which it explores a "The sea, wind, space, are palpable in this exquisitely worked book.