num_pages: 260
description: “John Hildebrand sets out in a canoe . . . to explore the great riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska. . . . The geography is closely rendered and the characters especially sharply drawn. The country is filled with mad dropouts at river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns, sullen natives in tumbledown villages, cranky old-timers, terrible drunks and worse moralizers who live off the wild landscape and its abundant resources. . . . This is a fine work, and Hildebrand is a fine writer.”—Charles E. Little, Wilderness
language: English
title: Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon
titlecomplete: Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon
genres: Adventure, Nonfiction, Travel
ratings_count: 69
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press