Child of the Wild - A Story of Alaska

Edison Marshall

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Seven-year-old Sam finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck and alone on an uninhabited coastline of Alaska. He is eventually found by native people and later taken in by a man who sends him to school. Sam grows up and becomes a game warden and has encounters with lawless men, bears, wolverines and an avalanche. There is also a thread of romance woven through all after he meets the beautiful June who saves his life during one of his misadventures.

Disponibile da: 23/08/2023.

Lunghezza di stampa: 182 pagine.

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