The Wanigan by Gloria Whelan SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2002 • Knopf

The Wanigan: A Life on the River by Gloria Whelan and illustrated by Emily Martindale

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2002] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Light shelf wear.  Dust jacket housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  Reads like new. 

Before the spring of 1878, 11-year-old Annabel Lee had never even heard of a wanigan. But she and her mother are now stranded on the small floating cookshack for three months while her father and the other loggers move their timber down the river to the mills at Lake Huron.

With a constant threat of forest fires, timber pirates, and log jams, it’s a perilous journey, especially for a delicate girl who’d rather read poetry than live in the rough company of loggers. But the Au Sable river and its shores soon reveal their beauties. And by the time the wanigan nears Lake Huron, Annabel can’t imagine waking up without a brand-new surprise outside her window each morning. In a novel of rugged river adventure and evocative nature writing, Gloria Whelan brings 19th-century history—and one girl’s summer river journey—to life for young readers.