Bibliograph

The Run to Gitche Gumee, a Novel, Robert F. Jones

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The Run to Gitche Gumee, a Novel, Robert F. Jones

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Run to Gitche Gumee

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

869090509

Responsibility statement

Robert F. Jones

Sub title

a Novel

Summary

It's 1950, and Ben and Harry, two young men from Wisconsin, know their fun is about to come to an end. Ben will soon depart for the war in Korea while Harry will hit the books as a college freshman. They decide to end the summer on a high note with what will certainly be an adventurous canoe trip to Lake Superior, known to the Chippewa as Gitche Gumee. On the way to Gitche Gumee, they row through terrifying rapids, fend off a ferocious black bear, and catch some of the biggest trout they've ever seen in their lives. Encounters with a group of thieves, a few rambunctious girls from

Table Of Contents

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Part I Downstream Bebop; 1 On the Water; 2 The Cannibal-Killer; 3 "Servivers will be Perssacuted!"; 4 The Flambeau Boys; 5 Twodoggone Lake; 6 A Loon Hunt; 7 College Girls; 8 Coyote Nowhere; 9 The Friends of Gayelord Schnauzer; 10 Marlows Leap; 11 After the Storm; 12 The Sign of the Flying Red Horse; 13 Crossing the Bar; Entr'Acte: In the Forest of the Night; Part II The Same River Twice; 1 Timor Mortis; 2 The Afterlife; 3 Preparations for Getting Underway; 4 Night of the Bull Newt; 5 The Cryptobranchs; 6 Theory & Practice of Rivers7 A White-Gloved Howdy8 Shikaree Lodge; 9 The Elephant Revealed; 10 Violators; 11 The Solid-Gold Cadillac; 12 TrÈs Riches Heures; Coda

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