Bonded over their mutual love of literature, the two boys decide to halt their studies at Dartmouth and take their dream trip 160 miles down the river to the Hudson Bay. Wynn hailed from Vermont, also tough but whose softness shone through his tendency to see the best in everyone and everything. Jack is tough and gritty, raised on a ranch in Colorado, still struggling with his mother’s accidental death. Heller, the best selling author of “The Dog Stars,” weaves the story of Jack and Wynn, two young men on their canoe trip down the Maskwa River, a remote stretch of water that slithers across rough Canadian landscape. In his new book “The River,” Peter Heller shows off his personal expertise and meticulous research cogently. Pinning down very specific and intricate details of the outdoors is often what makes or breaks a wilderness novel.
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