God's Country--And the Woman

ISBN-13: 9781421821436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str.

James Oliver Curwood

Opis

Philip Weymans buoyancy of heart was in face of the fact that he had but recently looked upon Radissons unpleasant death, and that he was still in a country where the water flowed north. He laughed and he sang. His heart bubbled over with cheer. He talked to himself frankly and without embarrass-ment, asked himself questions, answered them, discussed the beauties of nature and the possibilities of storm as if there were three or four of him instead of one. At the top end of the world a man becomes a multiple being - if he is white. Two years along the rim of the Arctic had taught Philip the science by which a man may become acquainted with himself, and in moments like the present, when both his mental and physical spirits overflowed, he even went so far as to attempt poor Radissons "La Belle Marie" in the French-mans heavy basso, something between a dogs sullen growl and the low rumble of distant thunder. It made him cough. And then he laughed again, scanning the narrowing sweep of the lake ahead of him.