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A carregar... The Canoe and the Saddle : Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests; and Isthmiana.por Theodore Winthrop
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Offers a narrative overview of the nature and culture of the Pacific Northwest; reflecting on its ecological and racial turmoil. This book provides a fresh perspective on the aesthetic, historical, cultural, anthropological, and social contexts in which Winthrop wrote his sometimes disturbing, sometimes enlightening, and always riveting account. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)917.970444History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America West Coast U.S. WashingtonClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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... "A twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. A novelized memoir of his travels, it became a bestseller when it was published shortly after the author's untimely death in the Civil War." The author, Major Winthrop, was one of the first Union officers killed in the Civil War in 1861.
A novelization of the author's Northwest tour made in 1853, providing a vivid picture of the nature and culture of the pacific Northwest and descriptive conversations with the Chinook, Kallapooga, Haida Indians, among others. His narrative is told with considerable humor, and contains 4 pages of Chinook vocabulary. The second work, "Isthmiana, " was a sketch found among Winthrop's papers, a rapidly written journal of his travels in the Isthmus of Panama.
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