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Bijaboji: North to Alaska by Oar.


Bijaboji: North To Alaska By Oar

Betty Lowman Carey , author

Neil G. Carey, editor

Harbour Publishing

PO Box 219, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0

www.harbourpublishing.com

1550173405 $34.95 1-604-883-2730

In 1937 one Betty Carey embarked on the ultimate adventure, rowing from Puget sound Puget Sound (py`jĕt), arm of the Pacific Ocean, NW Wash., connected with the Pacific by Juan de Fuca Strait, entered through the Admiralty Inlet and extending in two arms c.  Alaska by dugout dugout: see canoe.  canoe canoe (kən`), long, narrow watercraft with sharp ends originally used by most peoples.  ... but her adventure didn't end there. Her explorations of the Inside Passage and adventures with loggers, lightkeepers, fishermen, missionaries and other residents recounted in Bijaboji: North To Alaska By Oar creates an astounding a·stound  
tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds
To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise.



[From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen,
 adventure story armchair readers won't want to miss.
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