River Thieves

River ThievesBy: Michael Crummey At the turn of the nineteenth century, naval officer David Buchan arrives in the Bay of Exploits with orders to establish contact with the Beothuk or "Red Indians," the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland facing extinction. When Buchan approaches the area's most influential white settlers, the Peytons, for advice and assistance, he enters a shadowy world of allegiances and old grudges that he can only dimly apprehend. His

prepare for a crash course in taut

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Begun as a collection of anecdotes for his son

有些道地的景觀，很少在歷史書提及，偏偏這才是我們生活最常接觸、看見的變遷。勇先筆下的海洋公園，由璀璨到沒落；喜帖街的「保育活化」，如何趕走了原有街坊鄰里的租戶；旺角「四樓有四仔」的一代風光，隨網路興起而消逝；九龍城寨、尖沙咀火車站等歷史名勝，怎樣因城市發展的短視眼光，抹殺了文化根本等

and Nico found the Long Lost Great Stagecoach in the Gusty Gulch

and his journalism

she is hunting for much more than just the truth

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[Hitchcock] weav[es] the alternating voices of four young people into a seamless and continually surprising story of risk

he meets a fox

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As they peel back the layers of their history—the old wounds