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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19980823
Author:WYNN, Special To The Herald JUDITH

Fasten your seat belts, armchair adventurers: These late-summer books will take you to Cuba, the Canadian Arctic and into the psyches of two of America's most dynamic literary stars.

"Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane" by Linda H. Davis (Houghton Mifflin). This is a terse, spellbinding biography of the young war correspondent who wrote the classic Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage," covered the 1898 Spanish-American War in Cuba and died of tuberculosis in 1900. Harvard, Mass., writer Davis captures Crane's desperate race against his family's chronic disease ...

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