1920s
Alaska
Bering Strait
Biography
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Daryl Henry
Dmitriana
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fisherman
Historical fiction
Homeward bound
Mrs Wrinkles and the Emotion Potion
Russia
Russian immigrant
Siberia
Travel
True story
Vagrancy
Product details
- ISBN 9781739533069
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Moat House Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dmitriana Petrovna, a homesick Russian immigrant stranded in 1920s New York, sets out to return home by walking across the continent to Alaska. Undeterred by fierce weather, ravening bears and hunger, she only gets as far as the British Columbia wilderness when winter sets in. For her own safety, she is jailed for vagrancy.
Compassionate townsfolk take pity, including Alexander MacQuire, a charismatic telegrapher, who is smitten, but Dmitriana's stony resolve frustrates him. Helplessly in love, he watches her set off in the spring.
Then, impulsively, he hurries to catch up, but stumbles and falls into white water. Told he is missing, she considers going back - but instead struggles on, eventually reaching the Bering Strait. There, on the shore opposite Siberia, she is aghast to find MacQuire, bedraggled but beaming, waiting for her. "The river spit me back up," he explains.
Hoping to hire a boat, she is confounded. Hoping she won't find one, he begs her to stay.
Compassionate townsfolk take pity, including Alexander MacQuire, a charismatic telegrapher, who is smitten, but Dmitriana's stony resolve frustrates him. Helplessly in love, he watches her set off in the spring.
Then, impulsively, he hurries to catch up, but stumbles and falls into white water. Told he is missing, she considers going back - but instead struggles on, eventually reaching the Bering Strait. There, on the shore opposite Siberia, she is aghast to find MacQuire, bedraggled but beaming, waiting for her. "The river spit me back up," he explains.
Hoping to hire a boat, she is confounded. Hoping she won't find one, he begs her to stay.
Born and raised impatiently in British Columbia, Daryl Henry travelled around the world twice, taking notes. Along the way he became an architect, sailor, Royal Mountie, war correspondent, skydiver and pilot, eventually settling in Santa Barbara, California, United States, where he taught himself to write. First, television and films, then short stories, and finally, novels.
