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Autore: | Rarick Ethan <1964-> |
Titolo: | Desperate passage [[electronic resource] ] : the Donner Party's perilous journey West / / Ethan Rarick |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina: | 979.4/37 |
Soggetto topico: | Donner Party |
Overland journeys to the Pacific | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-279) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Characters; Prologue; I: Journey; II: Tribulation; III: Salvation; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westwardmigration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over theSierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gatheringforce. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and childrenwould be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and onlyprimitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year,the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes ofhuman surviv |
Titolo autorizzato: | Desperate passage |
ISBN: | 1-281-16303-1 |
9786611163037 | |
0-19-804150-0 | |
1-4356-3881-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451520303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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