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Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer storiesâ??the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve.
The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four childrenâ??in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reedâ??proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and fatherâ??traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It com… (meer)
If you've watched documentaries about the Donner Party (canabalism!), then you'll want to read this book. I especially liked the narrative of the surviving daughter. how I admire these pioneers ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Think of America, I told myself this morning. The whole thing. The cities, all the houses, all the people, the coming and going, the coming of children, the going of them, the coming and going of men and death, and life, the movement, the talk, the sound of machinery, the oratory, think of the pain in America and the fear and the deep inward longing of all things alive in America.
—William Saroyan, in The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To my father and mother, who brought their dreams to this western shore
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Last night I dreamed again about my mother.
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Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The tiny curve of light shifts across the surface like a river finding its way to the sea.
Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer storiesâ??the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve.
The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four childrenâ??in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reedâ??proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and fatherâ??traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It com
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