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Pros
Ivan doig has a style that is absolutely mesmerizing! Doig is a wonderful historian and storyteller and writer. Thank you, ivan.
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Quality
I like the format doig uses to contrast the northwest corner of our northwesternmost state as it was in swan’s day with the present
I am not sure anyone unfamiliar with the area would be interested
Packaging/appearance
I enjoyed the book because i like to read books about life in the 1800s
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- This product had a total of 107 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 12 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Doig never disappoints on whatever ambition he sets for himself whether its the rockies of montana or the pastpresent of puget sound
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Its so sad that such a literary voice as mr
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
His writing is quirky and uneven so not everybody is
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This is a history book not a novel
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It’s a study of the prolific writings of a pacific northwest pioneer of the 1850s and of doig’s present day effort at spending a winter retracing the diarist’s steps while reading through a forty year collection of at least 2500000 handwritten words
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Swan originally came to the area in 1848
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
He can craft a sentence with highly unorthodox structure and convey the feelings the beauty and the emotion that is not found in contemporary works
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ivan doig found gold when he came across the unpublished diaries of james gilchrist swan in the manuscripts section of the university of washington library
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