![]() ![]() The guys are different in many ways, size, background, ways of seeing life, ways of approaching situations, but those differences seem to work. They are taking a semester off college so they can take their time enjoying the Canadian wilderness. Jack and Wynn met their first days of college and have been best friends and constant companions since then. The River by Peter Heller, Mark Deakins (Narrator) ![]() Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. ![]() Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. The story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip-of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence ![]()
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