BERKLEY
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Copyright © 2023 by Peggy Townsend
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Townsend, Peggy, author.
Title: The beautiful and the wild / Peggy Townsend.
Description: New York : Berkley, [2023]
Identifiers: LCCN 2023000964 (print) | LCCN 2023000965 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593638088 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593638095 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Wilderness survival--Fiction. | Alaska--Fiction. | LCGFT: Survival fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PS3620.O97 B43 2023 (print) | LCC PS3620.O97 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6--dc23/eng/20230113
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023000964
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023000965
Cover design by David Litman
Cover image of cabin by Karol Majewski / Getty Images
Title page art: Mountain landscape © Galyna Andrushko / Shutterstock
Book design by Alison Cnockaert
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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