Sea Runners

Sea Runners

by Ivan Doig
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
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In this timeless survival story, four Scandinavian indentured servants escape their Russian Alaska work camp in a stolen canoe, only to face a harrowing journey down the Pacific Northwest coast twelve thousand miles away. Battling unrelenting high seas and fierce weather from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon, the men struggle to avoid hostile Tlingit Indians, to fend off starvation and exhaustion, and to endure their own doubt and distrust. Based on an actual incident in 1853, The Sea Runners is a spare and awe-inspiring tale of the human quest for freedom.

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Summary: Four prisoners escape a Russian work camp in Alaska and make their harrowing way to Astoria, Oregon in a canoe.

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