Soul of the River: Life in the Thousand Islands

by Shawn Thompson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896182550
• ISBN13: 9781896182551
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: General Store Publishing House
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Colorful folk of a colorful region.

An amazing work, compiling years of interviews with local folk on the St. Lawrence River, this latest study by Shawn Thompson repeats little incorporated in earlier works, but continues the focus of resent research: ordinary people. Essentially an archive of oral history, the content is largely documentation of interviews, mostly presented verbatim. Fiction could not invent such local color. If the vast undertaking may be faulted, one might complain that the author sought local color, to the degree that an unbalanced collective portrait results. There are too many rum-runners, perhaps, too many indigent hermits, and too few typical folk. Given than caveat, this big book must be appreciated as Thompson's major work to date. It will be a lasting classic of the regional literature.