EBOOK Desperate Passage:The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West - Ethan Rarick

EBOOK Desperate Passage:The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
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Autor: Ethan Rarick

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198041504
EAN: 79E6F69EEB
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Stron: 304
Data wydania: 2008
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The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "e;The Donner Party,"e; Rarick writes, "e;is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity."e;

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