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The Navigator’s Wife
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Artikel-Nr:
9780984569731
Veröffentl:
2012
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.06.2012
Seiten:
328
Autor:
Jane Galer
Gewicht:
464 g
Format:
216x140x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jane Galer holds a BA in philosophy, an MA in material culture studies, anda certificate in museum curation for archaeologists. She trained as a shaman in thelineage of the Q'ero of Peru for four years. Her work includes Becoming Hummingbird: Charting Your Life Journey the Shaman's Way, The Navigator's Wife, a novel, and she is currently atwork on The Painted People: the Celtic Shaman's Lineage. She is an award winning poet and the author of three books of poetry. Jane lives in northern California with her husband, Gene, and border collies, Tweed and Cavendish.
A surprising tale of the struggle for survival, The Navigator's Wife is the fictionalized true story of the 1808 shipwreck of the Russian fur trade explorer ship Sv. Nickolai, aground off the isolated coast of the Olympic Peninsula, and the capture of its entire crew including the young wife of the navigator, Anna Petrovna Bulygin, by Makah native people. Anna's struggle to survive in alien and harsh circumstances, the choices she makes, and the insistence with which she masters her environment make her a heroine for all time. Galer's vivid prose has been compared to Joseph Conrad or Jack London. Fleshing the skeleton of the scant factual information, this true event combines adventure, little known history, and a cross cultural love story. "A wonderful literary adventure." Ken Owens, author of The Wreck of the Sv. Nicolai.