Notes From the Century Before - Softcover

Hoagland, Edward

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9781550541878: Notes From the Century Before

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550541870 ISBN 13: 9781550541878

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre,[1995], c1969., 1995

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273 pages of excellent text, with many great maps and illustrations. in 1966 the author made a three month excursion into the wilds of northern British Columbia. There he met the last of the old-timers, men and women, from the gold rush era. This is a collection of the great stories they told about that time.

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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 Plimpton

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In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland's extraordinary gifts for portraiture--his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide--"Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and unparalleled elegy from one of the finest writers of our time.

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