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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Columbia River Bar (Or. and Wash.) History Columbia River Estuary (Or. and Wash.) History FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood Fathers and sons Shipwrecks Shipwrecks Columbia River Estuary (Or. and Wash.) Sullivan, Randall Travel United States Columbia River Bar United States Columbia River EstuaryMatar, Hisham
Summary: "In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Summary: "A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world. Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023