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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784218603321

Autore

Anderson Scott <1965->

Titolo

Distant fires [[electronic resource] /] / by Scott Anderson ; with illustrations by Les C. Kouba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Duluth, MN, : Pfeifer-Hamilton, c1990

ISBN

0-8166-9964-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KoubaLeslie C. <1917->

Disciplina

797.1220971

Soggetti

Canoes and canoeing - Canada

Canoes and canoeing - Minnesota

Canada Description and travel

Minnesota Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Baptism; 2. The Shore; 3. Grand Portage; 4. Height O' Land; 5. Kawnipi; 6. Call Me Ishmeal; 7. Namakan Moon, Underwear Fires; 8. River's Edge; 9. Dam Portages; 10. The Mountie's Daughters; 11. Ghosts; 12. False Dawn; 13. Horror at the Fish Camp; 14. The Melting Pot; 15. New in Town; 16. A House of God; 17. The Solitude of Four; 18. A Burning Sky; 19. The Last B.D; 20. Distant Fires

Sommario/riassunto

Distant Fires is the classic canoe-trip story...with a twist of wry. Scott Anderson chronicles a canoe adventure that began on a mother's front porch in Duluth, Minnesota, and ended three months and 1,700 miles later at historic York Factory on the shores of Hudson Bay.