Steller's Orchid (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Subtly reveals how we arrived at the Alaska of today... a book that is as much about the nature of life and love as orchid hunting and ambition." -Doug Fine, author of American Hemp Farmer
In 1924, Yale student John Lars Nelson takes ship on the SS...
In 1924, Yale student John Lars Nelson takes ship on the SS...
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"Subtly reveals how we arrived at the Alaska of today... a book that is as much about the nature of life and love as orchid hunting and ambition." -Doug Fine, author of American Hemp Farmer
In 1924, Yale student John Lars Nelson takes ship on the SS Victoria, bound for Nome. He has been hired to do a plant survey, but his real mission is to find an orchid described by Georg Wilhelm Steller, the naturalist on Vitus Bering's 1741 expedition. On the ship, John Lars encounters a young Aleut woman, Natasha Christiansen. Once in Nome he hires a pair of down-at-the-heels bootleggers to take him to the Shumagin Islands on their schooner, the Emilia Galotti. He quickly discovers that the two are not what they first seemed...
In Bristol Bay he again encounters Natasha and she joins them but she and John are marooned shortly thereafter. They cross the Alaskan Peninsula on foot and then in a borrowed skiff reach Nagai Island, where Bering made his landfall two centuries before. They find the Emilia there, along with another ship, and the hunt for the orchid brings to a violent resolution an intrigue started many years before.
"In Nelson, Tom McGuire has created a smart, capable, and endearing narrator for this old-fashioned adventure, mystery, and coming of age novel. Steller's Orchid is authentically Alaskan and refreshingly original. It belongs on the shelf with Eowyn Ivey's To the Bright Edge of the World and Lynn Schooler's Walking Home." -Heather Lende, New York Times-bestselling author of Of Bears and Ballots
"A perfect example of literature that can entertain while also teaching about place, history and the human heart." -Anchorage Daily News
In 1924, Yale student John Lars Nelson takes ship on the SS Victoria, bound for Nome. He has been hired to do a plant survey, but his real mission is to find an orchid described by Georg Wilhelm Steller, the naturalist on Vitus Bering's 1741 expedition. On the ship, John Lars encounters a young Aleut woman, Natasha Christiansen. Once in Nome he hires a pair of down-at-the-heels bootleggers to take him to the Shumagin Islands on their schooner, the Emilia Galotti. He quickly discovers that the two are not what they first seemed...
In Bristol Bay he again encounters Natasha and she joins them but she and John are marooned shortly thereafter. They cross the Alaskan Peninsula on foot and then in a borrowed skiff reach Nagai Island, where Bering made his landfall two centuries before. They find the Emilia there, along with another ship, and the hunt for the orchid brings to a violent resolution an intrigue started many years before.
"In Nelson, Tom McGuire has created a smart, capable, and endearing narrator for this old-fashioned adventure, mystery, and coming of age novel. Steller's Orchid is authentically Alaskan and refreshingly original. It belongs on the shelf with Eowyn Ivey's To the Bright Edge of the World and Lynn Schooler's Walking Home." -Heather Lende, New York Times-bestselling author of Of Bears and Ballots
"A perfect example of literature that can entertain while also teaching about place, history and the human heart." -Anchorage Daily News
Autoren-Porträt von Thomas Mcguire
Tom McGuire came to Alaska with two college friends. Fifty years later he still hasn't found reason to leave. He has worked as a salmon fisherman, carpenter, and North Slope oilfield worker. He and his wife have raised four children in a house they built on the banks of the Chilkoot River. Grizzly bears are frequent visitors. Tom has also paddled thousands of miles down (and up) northern rivers. He has published a book 99 Days on the Yukon, that describes a summerlong trip with legendary canoeist Charlie Wolf.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Thomas Mcguire
- 2021, 280 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Red Hen Press
- ISBN-10: 1597098280
- ISBN-13: 9781597098281
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2021
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- Grösse: 1.54 MB
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