Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America [B1452-HC]

1980 HCDJ in nice clean condition. In this magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest, Ivan Doig fuses excerpts from the unpublished diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, an early settler of the region who was drawn from Boston in the 1850s, with his own journal entries as he travels in Swan's footsteps one winter along the once-wild coastline of Puget Sound. What emerges is a remarkable interaction of two minds, a dialogue across time that links the present with the reality of the American frontier. "A gorgeous tribute to a man and a region unjustly neglected heretofore... infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest."-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A nice weaving of two northwest stories, one historic and the other (Doig's own), more recent."; "I didn't want to put this book down... love learning about PNW history. From one of my favorite authors."; "My third book of Ivan Doig's, and by far the most introspective. He has found an 1800's diary of a man who lived in the Pacific NW, where Doig was living, and Doig feels a connection to him. Doig presents excerpts from the diary, and expounds upon them, often following the routes that James G. Swan himself was taking. It's a moving book, and Doig succeeds in letting us know why he had this obsession with a "winter friend" of a different century."; "Really fun read if you are at all familiar with the Olympic peninsula. The format is interesting with Doig trading his insights of the region with the diary of an early settler in the area."