The Last Canyon: A NovelHMH, 26 сент. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 352 A historical novel about John Wesley Powell’s nineteenth-century expedition through the Grand Canyon: “A riveting adventure tale” (The Seattle Times). In 1869, John Wesley Powell set out on a voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in US history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories—that of Powell and his crew, and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the canyon. As the novel moves inexorably toward a violent encounter between the two groups, Vernon deftly leads us into perilous geographical and emotional territory in a story of triumph, hardship, bravery, and loss. “Richly imagined.” —Los Angeles Times “No author has tried to put the reader as squarely in Powell’s waterlogged shoes . . . Packs a wallop.” —Salt Lake Tribune |
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... camp is by the river, and most of us keep as much as possible away from the town, except, as you might imagine, your friend Bill Dunn, who struts along the main street every inch the oleaginous desperado. He may look ferocious, with ...
... camp is by the river, and most of us keep as much as possible away from the town, except, as you might imagine, your friend Bill Dunn, who struts along the main street every inch the oleaginous desperado. He may look ferocious, with ...
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... camp, and I enlisted him at once. He is a Scotch boy and only eighteen years old, even younger than Ora's brother Seneca, but a good deal stronger. When we stand side by side he is the tallest of our crew. Young as he is, he has had ...
... camp, and I enlisted him at once. He is a Scotch boy and only eighteen years old, even younger than Ora's brother Seneca, but a good deal stronger. When we stand side by side he is the tallest of our crew. Young as he is, he has had ...
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... camp and asked if I was the famous Major John Wesley Powell, having read about our expedition in the papers. I said I was indeed the person he sought, minus that part about the fame. You'll be famous enough after this voyage, he vowed ...
... camp and asked if I was the famous Major John Wesley Powell, having read about our expedition in the papers. I said I was indeed the person he sought, minus that part about the fame. You'll be famous enough after this voyage, he vowed ...
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... camp, trematode larvae formed cysts on tadpole limbs, assuring that some would grow deformed legs. Routine signs of slaughter lay around. Beneath the cottonwood sheltering their camp, a few feet away from a blossoming balsamroot whose ...
... camp, trematode larvae formed cysts on tadpole limbs, assuring that some would grow deformed legs. Routine signs of slaughter lay around. Beneath the cottonwood sheltering their camp, a few feet away from a blossoming balsamroot whose ...
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... camp, a sodden mass of fur and quills lay in bunchgrass. Late that winter, a porcupine crossing a deep bank of snow had been surrounded by coyotes, one of which tunneled underneath his body and ripped his belly open—the only unprotected ...
... camp, a sodden mass of fur and quills lay in bunchgrass. Late that winter, a porcupine crossing a deep bank of snow had been surrounded by coyotes, one of which tunneled underneath his body and ripped his belly open—the only unprotected ...
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Part Three July 3July 131869 | |
Part Four | |
Part Five July 14July 191869 | |
Part Six | |
Part Seven July 20Angnst 3 1869 | |
Part Eight | |
Part Nine August 5August 28 1869 | |
Part Ten | |
Epilogue One Year Later September 1870 | |
Back Matter | |
Back Cover | |
Spine | |
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