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Sto caricando le informazioni... The California Trail: An Epic With Many Heroes (1962)di George R. Stewart
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This was a fascinating collection of data, journal entries and anecdotes from the first pioneers to take wagons, oxen and mules from Kansas to California. The Donner party is mentioned, along with other famous western travelers, from 1941-59, including the 49ers of the gold rush. Also of note are the stories of how many common places we know in the west got their names during these trail epics -- Truckee, CA; Steamboat Springs, etc. I'm not a huge fan of history, but this was fascinating reading. Highly recommended. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Thomas Mistler has always thought himself "a happy man, as the world goes." A scion of old money, he made his own fortune in advertising and is now poised to sell the company he founded for a fabulous price. But when a medical examination reveals the presence in his liver of a fatal intruder, "preposterously, unmistakably, he begins to rejoice," with a feeling of having been set free. But free from what? He will seek the answer surreptitiously, without revealing his illness to his family, during a last reprieve, a moment of grace in "the one place on earth where nothing irritates him." But amidst the surreal beauties of Venice, he finds bitterness and chaos as he allows himself to drift for the first time. His halfhearted efforts to seize the day and its present pleasures--first with a striving young photographer and later with a love of his youth who never loved him--cannot compete with his need to commune with the living and the dead that crowd his life: his father and uncle, pillars of the Establishment, sources of the "genetic puritanism" he has never tried to resist; his son, Sam, whose love he has only barely salvaged; his wife, once perfectly "beautiful and suitable," now humiliated by him and half-scorned. And the one woman who embodies everything he might have wished for, a woman he "never had and never lost." Deeply poignant yet mordantly funny, "Mistler's Exit" brilliantly discloses the pleasures and miseries of having it all. A masterly revelation of the complexities of the heart. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Louis Begley's "Memories of a Marriage." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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