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Carregando... The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis & Clark & Kinneson Expeditionsde Howard Frank Mosher
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The Lewis and Clark expeditions are a part of American history that has always been of interest to me. I don't think it is the best of Mosher's writing, but nonetheless was a good read. For those who enjoy historical fiction, it is worth picking up. ( ) Reminded me of one of my favorite books of this type, Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. Similarly tongue-in-cheek, adding fictitious characters to historical events. Private True Teague Kinneson is a fun character. If you don't like him, you won't like the book. One thing struck me odd: the only friendly Native Americans were those with mixed (that is, partially White) blood. And they certainly didn't seem very much like Indians (Franklin, for example). The pure-blooded Indians are the bad guys in this book. Okay, so I'm thinking too hard. If you're a Mosher fan (and if you're not, what's wrong with you?) or you're into Lewis and Clark, I'd advise you to pick up a copy. Amazon was selling new hardcover editions for five bucks last I checked. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML:An explorer and his nephew set out to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific in this humorous historical novel by the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom. In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinnesonâ??schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorerâ??sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis's expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives; and outwit True's lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the Devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting . . . A Top Ten Book Sense 76 Selection Praise for The True Account "A madcap what-if story . . . a cock-eyed joyride through history." â??Washington Post "Picaresque is too tame a word for this imagined romp . . . A great adventure." â??Los Angelese Times Book Review "The funniest historical novel about the West since Little Big Man." â??Denver Post "Mosher calls to mind the best of Mark Twainâ??mischievous, touching, and very funny." â??Carl Hiaasen "Clever . . . . Fun and fanciful with much to savor, Mosher's novel demonstrates a boundless imagination and a light comic touch." â??Pu Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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