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Reading the River

Reading the River

by John Hildebrand

Book Details

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1988
Language: en
Pages: 243
ISBN: 9780395424803
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Confidence: 75%

Content Intensity

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💥ViolenceNone
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❤️Love & RomanceVery low
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🧠Mental HealthNone
0
💬!*$#LanguageNone
3
🍷🚬Substance UseModerate
1
😨Fear / HorrorVery low

Story Themes

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🧙Fantasy / SupernaturalNot present
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🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ RepresentationNot present
0
🚀Sci-Fi / FuturisticNot present
0
Disability & NeurodiversityNot present

Description

“John Hildebrand sets out in a canoe . . . to explore the great riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska. . . . The geography is closely rendered and the characters especially sharply drawn. The country is filled with mad dropouts at river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns, sullen natives in tumbledown villages, cranky old-timers, terrible drunks and worse moralizers who live off the wild landscape and its abundant resources. . . .

Themes & Topics

YUKON RIVER AND VALLEY (YUKON AND ALASKA)
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