- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.; 1 edition (May 18 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0156031027
- ISBN-13: 978-0156031028
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #414,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Brilliant ... A remarkable evocation of the human spirit in contest with inhuman forces." -- Boston Globe
Book Description
In this timeless survival story, four indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to face a harrowing journey down the Pacific Northwest coast. Battling unrelenting high seas and fierce weather from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, the men struggle to avoid hostile Tlingit Indians, to fend off starvation and exhaustion, and to endure their own doubt and distrust. Based on an actual incident in 1853, The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great story, wonderfully told,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sea Runners (Paperback)
This is a stellar example of how beautiful prose writing can be. Story telling is an art, a skill, and this is as good as it gets.
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Adventuring Swedes,
By pullrich "pullrich" (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sea Runners (Paperback)
So much more than an adventure tale. Doig captures the threatening beauty and drama of this coast and gives a strong sense of the time period. As is the case with all his books you can reach out and touch the characters. Their interactions and relationships couldn't be more realistic.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Alaska's Inside Passage, four Swedes and a Canoe,
By Lawrence M. Monat (Huntington Station, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sea Runners (Paperback)
After a recent trip from Seattle to Juneau on a small cruise ship (100 passengers) I read this book, which is based upon a true story, upon the recommendation of a fellow passenger. It was the perfect post script to a modern day cruise up the coast of British Columbia and Alaska's "inside passage" (along its southeast coast). Author Voig's four Swedes, all indentured servants escaping from the the Russians, take a similar route, but they do it in 1860 (when Alaska was "Russian America") and they head South from Sitka to Astoria, Oregon. They travel in a twenty foot open dugout canoe stolen from the "Kaloshes", a sect of Northwest Indians (Tlingit). The Swedes experience the same unpredictable weather, seas and coastline as they modern day traveler, but they have no cablin, dining room or tour director. And they have to paddle all the way - a distance of over one thousand miles. The tale is a tribute to the human spirit. Ivan Voig knows this part of the world, and he enabled me to relive my fabulous trip as high adventure from my living room chair.
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