Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade

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Simon and Schuster, 1985 - Business & Economics - 396 pages
A Western tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth, this is Hawkes' most ambitious work ever.

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Section 1
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Section 2
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Section 3
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Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
John Hawkes
Snippet view - 1986
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
John Hawkes
Snippet view - 1986
Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
John Hawkes
Snippet view - 1985

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Alaska began Belly Burglar blankets boat boots cabin Carl Ben Eielson Chippy Smith climbed cold dark dead Deauville Doc Haines door dory Dynamite Pete Eielson face Fairchild father feet fish Fitzgibbon flying boat Frank Morley French Pete Gamelands George Steller going Goodnews Bay Guns & Locks hair hand Hank head heard Hilda Laubenstein Indian Jake and Frank Jake's Juneau knew laughed leaned light listened Locks & Clothes looked Morley's morning musher Nam-Bok never night nodded Oh Jake Olafson once partner pilothouse poor Prince of Wales Rainy Pass Rex Ainsworth Robert McGinnis rock Rodman Bay rope says shirt shoulder silence Sissy Sissy's Sitka Charley Skoots slowly smell smile smoke sound stared stood suddenly Sunny Taku Bay tell thing thought told totem pole turned Uncle Jake voice waited wanted watched White Eye woman women wooden young

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About the author (1985)

Author John Hawkes was born in Stamford, Connecticut on August 17, 1925. During World War II, he joined the American Field Service and was an ambulance driver in Italy and Germany from the summer of 1944 to the summer of 1945. He taught at Brown University for thirty years. He wrote eighteen novels, four plays, and a volume of poetry during his lifetime. His first novel, The Cannibal, was published in 1949. His other works include The Lime Twig, The Beetle Leg, and Virginie: Her Two Lives. His novel Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade won France's Prix Medicis Étranger in 1986. He died on May 15, 1998.

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TitleAdventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade
AuthorJohn Hawkes
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 1985
ISBN0671473042, 9780671473044
Length396 pages
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