MARGARET CRAVEN
American journalist and writer (1901 - 1980)
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He stood at the wheel, watching the current stream, and the bald
eagles fishing for herring that waited until the boat was almost
upon them to lift, to drop the instant it had passed. The tops
of the islands were wreathed in cloud, the sides fell steeply,
and the firs that covered them grew so precisely to the high tide
line that now, at slack, the upcoast of British Columbia showed
its bones in a straight salvage of wet, dark rock.
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name (ch. 1)
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