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Sto caricando le informazioni... Campbell's Kingdom (originale 1952; edizione 1956)di Hammond Innes
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Bruce Wetheral, an English insurance clerk, receives two pieces of life-changing news in a single day. One is medical: he has stomach cancer and not much long to live. One is familial: his grandfather has made him the sole heir of a patch of land in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. With nothing to lose, Wetheral decides to go to Canada and try his hand at striking oil on the land that everyone believed was dry. I bought this mainly because British novelists writing about Canada always crack me up, especially in books from the 1950s. This was OK, and it was obvious Innes had done his research of the geography, the land, and the oil drilling. However, it had some stereotyping about a guy who was half Indigenous, and the ending was unbelievable. I wouldn’t suggest it for anyone looking to try Innes’ work for the first time. Campbell's kingdom by Innes Hammond About the oil fields in Canada with background of all the intricate details. His grandfather had formed a company in Canada and he's now the holder of all of the company as his grandfather has died. Early 1900's He had never given up on finding oil...hydroelectric production and plans... Bruce travels to Canada and meets many of his grandfathers associates. The lawyers are trying to pressure Bruce to sign the deed over to them... Lots of mysteries await him as he starts to solve what is going on..the survey reports were false and he has the real ones...could it be there is oil under the land? Building of the dam and the sale of the land is a plan that is up for controversy. Loved hearing of the land and the pure nature still there as the men climb up to the land. When he first arrived in Canada he knew he only had a few short months of his life left but something happens to complicate it all. I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). Bruce Campbell Weatherall unexpectedly inherits his estranged grandfather's oil exploration company and land in Alberta, Canada, in the Rocky Mountains. His grandfather Stuart Campbell was a recluse living in a log cabin there, stubbornly maintaining that there was oil in the mountains, in spite of his company's bankruptcy. His grandson travels to Canada to see for himself, and to try to prove his grandfather's claim. A good page-turning thriller, typical Hammond Innes fare, good for escape reading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
È contenuto inHa l'adattamentoÈ riassunto inReader's Digest Auswahlbücher 184 : Die Firma. Rama Dama. Campbells Königreich. Ella di Reader's Digest Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Skyscraper • The Other Side of Paradise • A Deadly Presence • Campbell's Kingdom di Reader's Digest
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDY MCNAB He was a man without hope, until a lawyer and a crazy inheritance spurred him to one last desperate roll of the dice. The old man was convinced, against all evidence, that there was oil in the Rocky mountains. So his grandson sets off to a godforsaken town of shattered hopes and bitter old men, and plunges into a perilous battle against hostile country, powerful enemies and a ticking clock. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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There was a bit of a surprise in this novel as well. Before reading it, I hardly imagined the Canadian wilderness as much of a landscape for an adventure novel. Canada has always seemed, well, sort of boring. But Innes brought it to life, along with its inhabitants and their lusts, greed, and mostly suppressed violence, which is just waiting to bust through.
The novel, meanwhile, is another in the series of books that Innes would devote to contrasting the wilderness to its exploitation. This time, it was oil drilling and mining under his microscope. The people who do this work come out looking pretty good, however, even as they spoil the forests, mountains, and meadows around them. Later on, Innes would take a much harsher tone towards this destruction. ( )