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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. . . . This is a fine work, and Hildebrand is a fine writer. Charles E. Little, Wilderness For many of us the North has been the one place where a certain elemental experienceof land, water, and peoplecan still be had. John Hildebrands personal account of this experience has a particular freshness and poignancy. It is the record of a journey, as much inward as it is outward, and all the better for that. John Haines, author of The Stars, The Snow, The Fire A finely written account of coming to terms with ones self, of the realities of ones dreams. Recommended for anyone who would follow Thoreau into the woods, even now. Library Journal Hildebrand has every skill of mind and craft to enfold us in his experience. The New Yorker
Read Online Reading the River A Voyage Down the Yukon John Hildebrand 9780299154943 Books
"A complete surprise. Much more than a travelogue or river guide. Excellent prose from a gifted writer. One of the best books I've read in years."
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Reading the River A Voyage Down the Yukon John Hildebrand 9780299154943 Books Reviews
- I loved this book and enjoyed every page. I've been reading a lot of Alaskan/Northern frontier books and this is definitely one to put at the top of the list. The different people John met on his trip were fascinating. It's told in such a flowing and easy style, that you don't want to put it down. By the end, I envied not being able to take a trip like this myself.
- The book was well used, but serviceable
- A well written book; good primer for anyone planning a Yukon River trip, or anyone who just likes good adventure reading. Ride down the river with author in his canoe-with-motor and see Alaska through the eyes of a now-grown hippie returning to Alaska to find the self he left behind years before.
- A little slow paced, like the river itself. Interesting, none the less. If you paddle the river, read the book.
- I bought to read this winter.
- A well written account of a remarkable trip. This comes under the heading of journeys I'd love to take but may not have the guts to actually do. Fascinating observations of the huge forgotten swaths of country up at the top of the American continent and the few characters who inhabit it. The river provides an ideal vehicle for the journey and the story....taking us from one remote fishing camp to the next as Hildebrand rides and paddles downhill toward the Bering Sea.
- A complete surprise. Much more than a travelogue or river guide. Excellent prose from a gifted writer. One of the best books I've read in years.
- Great book.
