The Silent Places

The Silent Places
or, The Trail of Jingoss

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The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White

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1903

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The Silent Places
or, The Trail of Jingoss

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(2 Reviews)
A strenuous detective story, laid in the author's chosen field of the North Woods. The dramatic power of the book alone would make it famous. In addition, it has the fascination of the great, white, quiet forests--the Silent Places.

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outh, the keenness of eye, the patience,--all these were at once the marks of blows and the spoils of victory received from the Enemy. The wilderness, calm, ruthless, just, terrible, waited in the shadow of the forest, seeking no combat, avoiding none, conquering with a lofty air of predestination, yielding superbly as though the moment's victory for which a man had strained the fibres of his soul were, after all, a little, unimportant thing; never weary, never exultant, dispassionate, inevitable, mighty, whose emotions were silence, whose speech was silence, whose most terrible weapon was the great white silence that smothered men's spirits. Sam Bolton clearly saw the North. He felt against him the steady pressure of her resistance. She might yield, but relentlessly regained her elasticity. Men's efforts against her would tire; the mechanics of her power remained constant. What she lost in the moments of her opponent's might, she recovered in the hours of his weakness, so that at the last she won, poised in

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Wild Geese Calling is my favorite S E White book, but Silent Places is a remarkable literary effort. Tragic, though.
Silent Places is my favorite of all Stewart Edward White books. If you enjoy the out-of-doors and the wilderness experience do not pass this up!
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