Trask - Softcover

Berry, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870710230 ISBN 13: 9780870710230

Publisher: Oregon State University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Set in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rainforests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast, Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. Elbridge Trask is a restless man, a gambler with God, nature, and life itself. Yearning for change, he sets out with Wakila, a young Clatsop Indian, and Charley Kehwa, a tamanawis man or spiritual leader of the tribe, on an extraordinary journey of discovery.

About this title

About the Author

Don Berry considered himself a native Oregonian, despite the fact that he was born in Minnesota, with a lineage from Fox Indians. After attending Reed College, where his housemates included poet Gary Snyder, who shared his interest in Eastern metaphysics, Berry began a lifetime of pursuing his many passions: playing down-home blues and composing synthesizer music, sumi drawing and painting, sculpting in bronze, exploring theoretical mathematics, and writing for prize-winning films.

In addition to his three novels about the Oregon Territory (Trask, Moontrap, and To Build a Ship), published in the early 1960s, Berry wrote A Majority of Scoundrels, a history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. An early Internet pioneer, he also created a remarkable body of literature that exists now only in cyberspace.

Married with three children, Don Berry died at age 70 in 2001.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870710230
• ISBN 13: 9780870710230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348