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Wild Pork and Watercress

by Barry Crump · 1986

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A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world.

Genre
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Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 163 pages

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