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Jun 29, 2019DorisWaggoner rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Maybe I didn't give this book enough chance, but I read up until the night of the escape of the four Swedes, indentured servants at Russian New Archangel (Sitka). I read way past the number of pages in Nancy Pearl's formula (if you're over 50, subtract your age from 100; if you can't engage in a book after reading that number of pages, skip it and find a book that does engage you). I couldn't find anything in any of the characters to interest me, so I kept putting the book down and picking up another of Doig's books. So I turned it in unfinished. If I'd given it more time, I might have loved it, as Doig is one of my favorite writers. Even in this one, his descriptions of the natural world, for the characters who had the wherewithal to pay attention to it, were up to Doig's standards. It was the people who weren't.