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Wilderness : A Novel by Weller, Lance is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Thirty years after the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an old and ailing man, and his heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It's a quest he has little hope of completing but still must undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war. As Abel makes his way into the foothills, the violence he endures at the hands of two thugs who are after his dog is crosscut with his memories of the horrors of the war, the friends he lost, and the savagery he took part in and witnessed. And yet, darkness is cut by light, especially in the people who have touched his life-from Jane Dao-Ming Poole, the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants, to Hypatia, an escaped slave who nursed him back to life, and... Python function terminated unexpectedly [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor (Error Code: 1)

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Weller, Lance
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781624905032
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.89 / 5 (890 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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