{"product_id":"kings-of-the-yukon-an-alaskan-river-journey","title":"Kings of the Yukon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Weymouth  combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with  the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a young Robert Macfarlane. He  is, I have no doubt, a significant voice for the future' Andrew Holgate,  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e literary editor \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers' Susan Hill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA captivating, lyrical account of an epic voyage by canoe down the Yukon River.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and  Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most  ruggedly beautiful and remote regions of North America, Adam Weymouth  journeyed by canoe on a four-month odyssey through this untrammelled  wilderness, encountering the people who have lived there for  generations. The Yukon's inhabitants have long depended on the king  salmon who each year migrate the entire river to reach their spawning  grounds. Now the salmon numbers have dwindled, and the encroachment of  the modern world has changed the way of life on the Yukon, perhaps for  ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeymouth's searing portraits of these people and landscapes offer an elegiac glimpse of a disappearing world. \u003ci\u003eKings of the Yukon \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary adventure, told by a powerful new voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32113507565651,"sku":"9780141983790","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141983790_4a1b96b4-a7c0-4093-9f95-99096bdd58d8.jpg?v=1779936346","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/kings-of-the-yukon-an-alaskan-river-journey","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}