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Bezig met laden... Het dal der beproeving (1981)door James Alexander Thom
Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I read this book years ago, and the story has stuck with me (mostly a 'would I have survived what she did?' feeling). It was so long ago that I thought a woman wrote the book. Clearly I was wrong! ( ) I read it as a teenager and remember more details about it than I do for some books I read just last year. I also remember that once she escapes and makes her way back toward home the story becomes weighed down with tedious descriptions of the landscape. Many many many pages had to be skipped (is he still talking about trees? damn. is he still talking about trees? damn.) in order to make it through to the end, where we finally got the payoff that the first part of the book promised. This is a true adventure book, full of moment after moment of trials and tribulations, yet also of joy and tenderness. Somewhat amazingly, the story is based on real people and real personal history. Set in French and Indian War early America, the narrative does a good job of revealing frontier life and characters. The bulk of the book is about an almost super human struggle. I was most appreciative of the author's ability to avoid superficiality in accessing the complexities of specific situations, both physical and personal. This is no B-movie special-effects shoot-em-up. The detail is there, and in a natural way, not like a professor stopping periodically to explain some interesting nuance. I would have loved to have read this book as a teenager, but I thoroughly enjoyed it as an old geezer. I certainly see myself reading more of this author's books. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit. With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness no white woman had ever seen. Her story lives on-extraordinary testimony to the indomitable strength of one pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her own people. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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