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    The River in My Backyard
    The River in My Backyard
    The River in My Backyard
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    The River in My Backyard

    By Mikkel Aaland

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    OF ALL THE HAUNTING MEMOIRS THAT I HAVE READ, Mikkel Aaland’s The River in My Backyard, is at once the most heart-rending and the most courageously triumphant. Aaland explores two rivers, the literal one that runs past his ancestral home in Norway, and the metaphorical one that runs in the blood of his ancestors, himself, and now his two d

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCyberbohemia Press
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9780997261028
    The River in My Backyard
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    Mikkel Aaland

    MIKKEL AALAND IS A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER and the author of 12 best selling books on digital photography, including Photoshop RAW, Shooting Digital, the first Adobe Lightroom Adventure (Iceland) edition, and the second Adobe Lightroom Adventure (Tasmania) edition. Mikkel has also been a popular workshop leader in the United States and Europe, and creates training videos in collaboration with Lynda.com and Adobe Press. He is the co-host of the Nordic Light International Festival of Photography held every spring in Kristiansund, Norway. His non-technical books include, "County Fair Portraits," (for which he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman) "Sweat" (an illustrated tour of international bathing customs, culminating a three-year project), "The Sword of Heaven," "Pilgrimage to Kailash" and a recently published memoir, "The River in My Backyard." Aaland, along with his wife and two daughters, is currently based in San Francisco and Telemark, Norway.

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