In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898 by John Taliaferro, John Taliaferro
In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898
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John Taliaferro, John Taliaferro
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In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898

John Taliaferro, John Taliaferro

424 pages • first pub 2006 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced
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In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would starve to death by winter's end. Mercifully, an extraordinary missionary, Tom Lopp, and seven Eskimo herders e...

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