The Run to Gitche Gumee a Novel

Jones, Robert F. 1934- (author.).

Summary: It's 1950, and Ben and Harry, two young men from Wisconsin, know their fun is about to come to an end. Ben will soon depart for the war in Korea while Harry will hit the books as a college freshman. They decide to end the summer on a high note with what will certainly be an adventurous canoe trip to Lake Superior, known to the Chippewa as Gitche Gumee. On the way to Gitche Gumee, they row through terrifying rapids, fend off a ferocious black bear, and catch some of the biggest trout they've ever seen in their lives. Encounters with a group of thieves, a few rambunctious girls from.

Record details

ISBN: 9781628739398 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1628739398 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (354 pages)
Publisher: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2014.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Part I Downstream Bebop; 1 On the Water; 2 The Cannibal-Killer; 3 "Servivers will be Perssacuted!"; 4 The Flambeau Boys; 5 Twodoggone Lake; 6 A Loon Hunt; 7 College Girls; 8 Coyote Nowhere; 9 The Friends of Gayelord Schnauzer; 10 Marlows Leap; 11 After the Storm; 12 The Sign of the Flying Red Horse; 13 Crossing the Bar; Entr'Acte: In the Forest of the Night; Part II The Same River Twice; 1 Timor Mortis; 2 The Afterlife; 3 Preparations for Getting Underway; 4 Night of the Bull Newt; 5 The Cryptobranchs; 6 Theory & Practice of Rivers.

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