Two old women : an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage, and survival
(2013)
By:
Wallis, Velma
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780062244994 MWT15396193, 006224499X 15396193
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful
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