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Before we died / Joan Schweighardt.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.C568 B44 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweighardt, Joan, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Schweighardt, Joan, 1949- Rivers ; 1.
- Rivers ; book 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brothers--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- History.
- Rubber industry and trade.
- Brazil.
- Amazon River Valley.
- Irish Americans--Fiction.
- Irish Americans.
- Rubber industry and trade--Brazil--Fiction.
- Amazon River Valley--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Brazil--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Hoboken (N.J.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Hoboken (N.J.).
- New Jersey--Hoboken.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- i, 250 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, PA : Five Directions Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "In 1908 two Irish American brothers leave their jobs on the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, to make their fortune tapping rubber trees in the South American rainforest. They expect to encounter floods, snakes, malaria, extreme hunger and unfriendly competitors, but nothing prepares them for the psychological hurdles that will befall them."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781947044166
- 1947044168
- OCLC:
- 1125028237
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