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Description: HB with DJ, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1982, ISBN#0395325110. Tan paper on boards with darker tan cloth backstrip is showing bumped top corners, DJ is showing wear to edges with light rubbing and light soil to DJ, maps for end papers, contents are bright, clean and very tight. Very Good in Fair DJ. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780896214170ISBN:0896214176
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. A former library book with the usual identifiers. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Missing Dust Jacket. read more
Edition: large print
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780896214170ISBN:0896214176
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. A former library book with the usual identifiers. -large print, Hard Cover, Very Good / Missing Dust Jacket. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Mild warping; spine okay. Book is ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. May contain highlighting, inscriptions or notations. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to cover and binding. Pages show light use. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
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"I put off reading this sequel to The Big Sky and the Way West (A.B. Guthrie?s mountain man classics) for quite some time. Written nearly forty years after the originals, I felt certain it could not approach the lyrical beauty and simplicity of the first two.
I was right and wrong. There?s plenty to fault in Fair Land, Fair Land. It lacks the narrative tension of the first two and there?s a excess of pining for the ?lost? west. As a theme it?s a fine one, but in this later novel, it?s pounded into tortilla pulp. The ending (as well as the long anticipated reunion of Dick Summers and Boone Caudill) are sudden and anticlimactic.
That said, it is still a beautifully recreated world with authentic and indelible characters. And there?s still plenty of mountain adventure, frontier ethos and fireside philosophizing like this quote from Higgins:
?Well I figure this way. There is there all right, until a man gets to it. Then it ain?t there. It?s here, and here is what you wanted to get away from in the first place.?
Though these frontier Ulysses trod some of the same trails, the journey is still an enjoyable one."
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