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Carregando... Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwestde David Roberts
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I grew up in the North Fork Valley of Colorado where Escalante traveled. I took personal pride in the fact that the North Fork Historical Society was the only private group putting up historical markers showing Escalante’s and Dominguez’s travels. Sometimes I got a little bogged down in Escalante’s diary, but I loved the author’s insights and I wish him well as he continues to battle cancer. ( ) What I would give to read Sharon's account of the trip!! The prose was good. I enjoyed the relationship of the couple. They are a good match. The 1776 exploration of the Grand Canyon etc is kind of boring and the only outstanding result is that none of them died. I can't remember why they are even remembered. The journal kept by Escalante was bland but like Dave offers up at the end, he came to like him. As I first stated, more of the wife's observations and the hook would have been a 3. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domn?guez and Silvestre V?ez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguay,? hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey. In strict terms, the expedition failed. Running out of food and beset by an early winter, the twelve-man team gave up in what is now western Utah. The retreat to Santa Fe became an ordeal of survival. The men were reduced to eating their own horses while they searched for a crossing of the raging Colorado River in Glen Canyon. Seven months after setting out, Domn?guez and Escalante staggered back to Santa Fe. Yet in the course of their 1,700-mile voyage, the explorers discovered more land unknown to Europeans than Lewis and Clark would encounter a quarter-century later. Other writers, using Escalante's brilliant and quirky diary as a guide, have retraced the expedition route, but David Roberts is the first to dig beneath its pages to question and ponder every turn of the team's decision-making and motivation. Roberts weaves the personal and the historical narratives into a gripping journey of discovery through the magnificent American Southwest. --Publisher Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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