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Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River (Northwest Reprints)
Robin Cody
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Description for Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River (Northwest Reprints)
Paperback. In "Voyage of a Summer Sun, " Robin Cody tells the story of his 82-day solo canoe trip down the Columbia River, from its source in Canada to its mouth in Astoria. This first OSUPress edition includes a new afterword by the author." Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; RBKF; WSSN5; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
“The story is the Columbia River, not the canoe and me, but I’ve learned that friends can’t hear me tell about the river until they know why I was out there. This is not an adventure story, though some adventure was unavoidable, and I didn’t set out to find myself if I could help it. Nor did I launch the trip with a large point to prove. It was a voyage of discovery, and its telling is the uncovering of surprise on a river I thought I knew…” —Robin Cody, from the prologue
On a June morning in 1990, ... Read more
“The story is the Columbia River, not the canoe and me, but I’ve learned that friends can’t hear me tell about the river until they know why I was out there. This is not an adventure story, though some adventure was unavoidable, and I didn’t set out to find myself if I could help it. Nor did I launch the trip with a large point to prove. It was a voyage of discovery, and its telling is the uncovering of surprise on a river I thought I knew…” —Robin Cody, from the prologue
On a June morning in 1990, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870716614
SKU
V9780870716614
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Robin Cody
Oregon native Robin Cody is the author of Ricochet River, which also appears on the Oregon State Library's ""150 Oregon Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial"" list, and Another Way the River Has. He lives in Portland, USA.
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