Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey

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Winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award's Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year

'Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a young Robert Macfarlane. He is, I have no doubt, a significant voice for the future' Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times literary editor

'Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers' Susan Hill

A captivating, lyrical account of an epic voyage by canoe down the Yukon River.

The Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most ruggedly beautiful and remote regions of North America, Adam Weymouth journeyed by canoe on a four-month odyssey through this untrammelled wilderness, encountering the people who have lived there for generations. The Yukon's inhabitants have long depended on the king salmon who each year migrate the entire river to reach their spawning grounds. Now the salmon numbers have dwindled, and the encroachment of the modern world has changed the way of life on the Yukon, perhaps for ever.

Weymouth's searing portraits of these people and landscapes offer an elegiac glimpse of a disappearing world. Kings of the Yukon is an extraordinary adventure, told by a powerful new voice.
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Weight 0.213000
Author Weymouth, Adam
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780141983790
Pages 288
Published 06/06/2019
Publisher Penguin
Section Travel Writing: General
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