Desperate passage : the Donner Party's perilous journey West / / Ethan Rarick
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| Autore: |
Rarick Ethan <1964->
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| Titolo: |
Desperate passage : the Donner Party's perilous journey West / / Ethan Rarick
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| 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 | |
| Note generali: | Formerly CIP. |
| Previously issued in print: 2008. | |
| 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: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Desperate passage |
| ISBN: | 0-19-771252-5 |
| 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.: | 9910827592903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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