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MIDGE RAYMOND

outhern Oregon author
SMidge Raymond visited the
Antarctic Peninsula in 2004, not
knowing that more than ten years
later she would publish a novel
based on her experience. My
Last Continent (Scribner, 2016)
tells of a penguin researcher
who finds love in Antarctica,
then receives a distress call that
the ship her partner is on has
struck ice and is sinking. “While
I was in Antarctica, naturalists
onboard our small expedition
vessel expressed concerns about
the large tourist ships venturing
farther and farther south,” says
Raymond. She later read about
several ships getting into trouble
in Antarctica, including one that If joint pain or
sank in 2007. “That’s when I realized this was a story that needed to be told.”
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Raymond was also inspired by a trip to Patagonia with her husband, author John Yunker, as
University of Washington volunteers helping with a penguin census in Argentina. Working with is holding you back,
scientists helped with her research, and inspired her husband’s novel, The Tourist Trail (Ashland the experts at Asante
Creek Press, 2011).
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