In 1980, I read a book whose story details I recall only dimly. I do not recall the title.<\/p>\n
Two children travel far from home to another place. I forget the purpose or motive for their journey. I believe it may have been a brother and a sister.<\/p>\n
At one point during their long journey, they sleep in a friend \/ ally \/ friendly stranger’s houseboat (or boat or water-home of some kind.) The young girl (I think) listens to the water lapping up under the floor as she is going to sleep.<\/p>\n
Near the end of the book, they encounter a civilization which had at some point stopped living in the world and now existed in a spirit form. The memory I recall when reading about this encounter, is that an individual (s) of this culture were rowing by them, or above them, as if rowing through the air, as spirits, in a “spirit canoe.”<\/p>\n
The mood of their encounter with this race of spirit people was haunting, nostalgic, and a sense of loss or grief for the children. As a ten year old, I was moved somewhat sorrowfully when the children learned of or interacted with these spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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