{"product_id":"book-i5i5","title":"Columbia","description":"The scope of Columbia--the first epic saga of our country's final courageous thrust into the continental unknown, the Pacific Northwest--is as massive as the Columbia River itself. The story begins nine thousand years ago, when the river was new, and unfolds in a magnificent family portrait spanning five generations, from the end of the eighteenth century to the present.\u003cbr\u003eAt the head of ancient family is Ilchee, a Chinook Indian princess married to a white trader, who founds a dynasty of rare courage; Caleb, her son, who must learn to live in the white world of Fort Vancouver; Suzanna, who makes the arduous trip across the continent, battling humiliation, death, and even love; Isaac, their son who builds a logging empire only to discover that destiny, not timber, is king; Ning Ho, Isaac's Chinese mistress, who teaches him even more of life than of pleasure; and finally Will, who rejects his father's vision to power his own--the building of the Grand Coolie Dam--and Leona, his wife,, whose secret threatens to destroy everything the family has worked to create.\u003cbr\u003eColumbia is a rich, vivid canvas of heroes and scoundrels, of men and women and their dreams of land, gold, timber, salmon, and power--dreams that begin when a nomad hunter kills a mastodon and ends with an archaeology team working frantically to uncover evidence of that kill before the Columbia's waters rise to cover the past forever--and a family destiny that proves \"some things must be believed to be seen.\"\u003cbr\u003ePamela Jekel is a nationally-known novelist with four NY Times bestsellers, twelve novels that have been translated into sixteen languages, including Braille, Large Print Editions, and Kindle. Library Journal hailed Columbia as \"a well-researched novel of drama and passion\", and \"historical fiction at its best.\" Publishers Weekly praised its heroine as \"a living breathing, three-dimensional character.\" Winner of the Southwest Historical Fiction award.","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49407145902384,"sku":"BDi5i5","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/471405-i5i5-Square.jpg?v=1735783504","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i5i5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}