The Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America - Softcover

Doig, Ivan:Swan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156972158 ISBN 13: 9780156972154

Publisher: Harcourt Brace International, 1982

Synopsis

The Winter Brothers The author of the much praised "This House of Sky" achieves a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through his exploration of the unpublished diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, an early settler of the region who was drawn from Boston in the 1850s. Doig fuses excerpts from the diaries with a journal of this own as he travels in Swan's footsteps one winter along the once wild coastline of Pu... Full description

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About the Author:

Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was born in Montana and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that has inspired much of his writing. A recipient of a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, he is the author of fifteen novels and four works of nonfiction.

Synopsis:

Exploring the pioneer impulse that first drew settlers to the Pacific Northwest, Doig combines excerpts from his own winter diary with those of an unconventional Bostonian who in 1850 abandoned civilization and headed west.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace International
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0156972158
• ISBN 13: 9780156972154
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264