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In 1966 Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of northern British Columbia. His account of this trip, Notes from the Century Before, is one of the great travel books of our time. It depicts a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it and it highlights Edward Hoagland's extraordinary gifts for portraiture, from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and Indian guide. Here is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and the long sigh of the wilderness loner.
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"This book is as remarkable as the landscape it describes." --Newsweek
"One of the most interesting, revealing, and delightful travel books I have read."--The New York Review of Books "His journal is about tangles and unrealized ambitions . . . and he understands wonderfully what to make of what he sees and hears. . . . A strange and beautiful book."--The Washington Post "Hoagland builds up an extensive, vivid picture of a place and people and, like all good travel writers, makes the reader want to start right out over his tracks."--The Atlantic Monthly "A beautiful book: so sharp and persistent in rendering the visible world, and yet so strangely wild with feeling."--Philip Roth "A spellbinding document."--George PlimptonAbout the Author
Edward Hoagland is the author of nearly twenty books, several of which have been nominated for the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hoagland lives in Bennington, Vermont.
Jon Krakauer is the author of Into Thin Air, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Into the Wild. His work has appeared in many magazines, including Outside, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. He chose the books in this series for their literary merit and historical significance--and because he found them such a pleasure to read."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherSan Francisco.North Point Press
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0865470774
- ISBN 13 9780865470774
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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