{"product_id":"9780547546735","title":"Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America","description":"\u003cb\u003eA blend of modern-day travel memoir and nineteenth-century history, “infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author of the acclaimed\u003ci\u003e This House of Sky\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMountain Time\u003c\/i\u003e provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through his exploration of the unpublished diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, an early settler of the region who was drawn there from Boston in the 1850s.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e fuses excerpts from these diaries with author Ivan Doig’s own journal entries, as he travels in Swan’s footsteps one winter along the once-wild coastline of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. What emerges is a remarkable interaction of two minds, a dialogue across time that links the present with the reality of the American frontier.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Absorbing . . . A double portrait of striking clarity, yet with wonderfully subtle hues.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123013665008,"sku":"9780547546735","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547546735_p0.jpg?v=1769896647","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547546735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}