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Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood

An instant classic, "Outside Passage" offers the spare, vivid account of enduring a hardscrabble childhood in the '30s and '40s at the edge of America.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 236 pages

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