Desperate Passage
The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
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A termék adatai:
- Kiadás sorszáma és címe heart-wrenching
- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2008. február 21.
- ISBN 9780195305029
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem304 oldal
- Méret 236x168x28 mm
- Súly 626 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 15 halftones 0
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Rövid leírás:
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. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "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."
TöbbHosszú leírás:
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth.
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. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "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."
A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, A Desperate Hope casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.
Rarick's retelling is solid, shored up with evidence, and complete withthe moral of the story cannibalism buffs look for.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Prologue
Jumping off
Catching Up
Vexatiously Slow
Pleasure Trip
Fine Style
The Crucial Decision
Gambling
A New and Interesting Region
Unearthly
One Bad Hill
Abandoned
The Mouth of Hell, The River of Life
A Great Snowy Range
This Prison
The First Death
The Forlorn Hope
A Low Situation
Taking the Field
Our Present Calamity
Fellowbeings
From California, or Heaven?
Threshold of Desperation
Weeping
Gruesome Sights
Terror, Terror
A Broken Promise
Alive Yet
None for Tears
The Last Man
A Beautiful Country
A Day of Renown
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Notes
Selected Bibliography
