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...will lead you to The Gates of Ledore, huge rocks, and your dock on the Green River. You'll spend three days with eagles and sheep and enough sleepers and rapids to make you happy to get back to the safety of Cambridge. Not only is Legal an expert raftsman, he's a gourmet cook, and after you've survived the hell of Devil's Elbow, he'll rustle you up some trout that'll make you even happier you're alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Trips | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men From the South | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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