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The Sea Runners: A Novel, by Ivan Doig.

The Sea Runners: A Novel, by Ivan Doig.

The Sea Runners: A Novel. By Ivan Doig. (New York: Atheneum, 1982. 279 pp. Map.) Recommendation submitted by: Will Stuivenga, Cooperative Projects Manager, Washington State Library, Tumwater, WA. There exists an actual letter-to-the-editor published in the Oregon Weekly Times, mentioning three Scandinavians who had managed to travel by canoe from Russian Alaska to Shoalwater (now named Willapa) Bay in 1852/53. Doig’s novel imagines what their trek must have been like, full of trepidations and tribulations, all the way up to and including…

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Literary escape? Here’s a book list for you

Literary escape? Here’s a book list for you

With the four-day Thanksgiving weekend coming up, many of you will spend time among relatives and friends, watching football and filling yourself with turkey and everything else on the table. But some of you can only do so much football, food and family. You might need a diversion, or perhaps a literary escape. Or, you might just want a book to help kill time if you’re traveling (except if you’re driving, of course). If that’s the case, check out this…

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