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Prologue and Chapters 1-4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Diaz, Hernan. In the Distance. Coffee House Press, 2017. E-book.

• The untitled prologue begins on page viii.

• The novel is set in the nineteenth century and the prologue opens with the striking image of a hand reaching up through icy water.

• The hand grasps the edge of the ice and an enormous man with long white hair and a long white beard emerges from the water.

• The novel's prologue goes on to depict a group of men aboard a freight schooner called The Impeccable.

• The ship has become trapped by ice on its way to Alaska and the large man has gone diving in order to free the freight schooner from its trapped position.

• The prologue takes place in the same time and place as the end of the novel.

• When the...

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