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River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage
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McClelland & Stewart 2011
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Trevor Herriot’s memoir and history of the Qu’Appelle River Valley has won the CBA Libris Award for First-Time Author, the Writers’ Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, and the Regina Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction.
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Street Date:
03/18/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781551994390
ASIN:
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Trevor Herriot. (2011). River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage. McClelland & Stewart.

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Trevor Herriot. 2011. River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage. McClelland & Stewart.

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Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage. McClelland & Stewart, 2011.

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Trevor Herriot. River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage. McClelland & Stewart, 2011.

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