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Martin Evison, an expert in forensic facial reconstruction at the University of Sheffield, UK, agrees.

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"These are the lessons explorers must learn, the perils explorers must face, so that the rest of the world can enjoy free passage," frontiersman James Mather declares in Jonathan Evison's hearty novel "West of Here" Algonquin Books, 486 pages, $24.95 .

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Evison, by these lights, was just one more victim among millions stretching through history.

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Evison, just 26, was leading his platoon on patrol in Helmand 18 months ago when the Taliban attacked.

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Lieutenant Mark Evison of the Welsh Guards was back from the dead, gripping the imagination.

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Mr. Evison himself sometimes gets lost as he tries to tell all the stories he has in mind.

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Getty Images/Imagezoo "West of Here" switches back and forth in time as Mr. Evison depicts the denizens of Port Bonita, a fictional town on the peninsula: We meet both the settlers from Washington's early days of statehood in 1889 and the blue-collar locals of 2006.

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But Mr. Evison is optimistically intent on showing how the ordinary present actually differs little from the mythicized past in its dreams and false starts, and how both eras are linked by the possibility of rebirth through adventure.

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His men carried Evison back inside their compound and called for an emergency helicopter.

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