HOUSTON, James

River Runners: A Tale of Hardship and Bravery

B/w Illus. by the author. New York: Atheneum, 1979. 8vo. Tan cloth, stamped in dark blue. 142 p. 1st ed. Fine in price clipped d/j; else Fine. [65477]

Winner 1980 Canadian Book of the Year for Children."James Houston knows the Northern Naskapi Indians and Eskimos well, having lived with them duing a period of ten years on the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay. River Runners is the story of a boy's wild and dangerous winter with the Naskapis at a fur trading post. Based on true events that occurred in the early 1950s."

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