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Sto caricando le informazioni... Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West (2008)di Ethan Rarick
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. What an interesting read. We all know about the Donner party and basically what happened to them but the details chronicled in this book are amazing. Details are taken from diaries, interviews with survivors and rescuers, and other reliable sources. So many things I did not know. How they got in the position they were in. Bad choices, bad advice. Difficult Sophie's Choice type choices having to be made. Heroics, cowardice. Everything is in this true life tale from the pioneer days. Definitely worth reading. This proved to be quite a lively, detailed and sympathetic but honest account of the entire journey west of what came to be infamously known as The Donner Party. Granted, before reading this I had only been exposed to the sketchiest of details regarding the Donner Party, so I can't truly attest to its accuracy, but given the documents and sources he cites throughout the book, I think it's definitely safe to say the author did his research! At times it became a little difficult to keep track of all the individuals, but that didn't detract too much from the entirety of the story. The author does a good job of making this history of the ill-fated Donner Party readable. He doesn't exactly put words in the mouths of the people; he uses their diary entries to help with that. He also explains at the end of the book that he feels able to place himself in their shoes by having gone to the locations they were during their ordeal. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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 Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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But their story lives on. ( )