To the Bright Edge of the World Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from Aronfish

Wonderful novel built on the journals of a military commander leading an expedition to map the Wolverine River territory in Alaska, and the diary written by his beloved wife, waiting for him in Vancouver. I'd read Eowyn Ivey's beautiful book, The Snow Child, and found much of the same beauty of t...

from Beamis12

When Colonel Forrester leaves from the army barracks in Vancouver, he is charged with exploring the Wolverine River in the newly acquired territory of Alaska. He leaves behind his wife, Sophie. As he blazes a trail in the wilderness, filled with tribes of different Indians, horrific snowstorms, l...

from msf59

"That is excitement. We catch only glimpses, a burst of movement, a flap of wings, yet it is life itself beating at shadow's edge. It is the unfolding of potential; all of what we might experience and see and learn awaits us."   This is an epistolary novel, describing the voyage and exploration o...

from passion4reading

Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester is a veteran US Army soldier tasked with leading a small expedition from Perkins Island in the Gulf of Alaska up the Wolverine River Valley, and to cross unexplored territory until the group reaches the coast of the Bering Sea. His young wife, Sophie, is determi...

from RidgewayGirl

This is a wonderful second novel about the relationship between a husband and a wife. Allen and Sophie Forrester are newly married, living in an Army-provided cabin in Washington state, when he is given the leadership of a small group of explorers tasked with traveling up the Wolverine river in A...