Daniel James Brown
Autore di The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Sull'Autore
Daniel James Brown was born in Berkeley, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Arts degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford University. mostra altro He is the author of The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894, and The Boys in the Boat. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Daniel James Brown
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1951
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Los Angeles (MA ∙ English Literature)
University of California, Berkeley - Attività lavorative
- technical editor
non-fiction writer
writing teacher - Organizzazioni
- Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (Technical Writer)
San José State University, San Jose, California (Professor)
Stanford University, Stanford, California (Professor) - Agente
- Agnes Birnbaum
Utenti
Discussioni
CooperB5: Boys in The Boat in Book talk (Settembre 2016)
Recensioni
Liste
Favourite Books (1)
1900s: America (1)
Read These Too (1)
Disaster Books (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 7,532
- Popolarità
- #3,248
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 374
- ISBN
- 95
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 7
Subtitle: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Brown looks at the events that led to and resulted from the infamous Donner Party trapped in a blizzard in the mountains near present day Lake Tahoe. I think that most people today have at least heard of the Donner Party, and for most of us the single thing we remember is their descent into cannibalism, but Brown gives us a more complete picture. We learn of their goals, hopes, and dreams, of their preparations and survival skills. We also learn about their mistakes and disagreements.
He chose to focus on one particular young woman, Sarah Graves, who was a 21-year-old newlywed when the group, which included her new husband, her parents and younger siblings, set out from Illinois bound for California, and who survived the ordeal. Brown did extensive research, interviewing descendants, pouring over historical reports, and actually replicating parts of the journey so that he could get a real sense of walking through waist-high fields of prairie grasses, experience the blinding whiteness of walking across salt flats in summer, feel the bitter wind of a snowstorm in the mountains. This made the tale more personal, even visceral, and helped this reader feel connected to Sarah and the entire Donner party.
Michael Prichard does a marvelous job of performing the audiobook. Nonfiction – even narrative nonfiction – can be dry at times but his delivery kept me engaged and interested in hearing the story.… (altro)