Shannon Burke
Autor(a) de Black Flies
Obras por Shannon Burke
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Burke, Shannon
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Wilmette, Illinois, USA
- Locais de residência
- Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - Educação
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Ocupações
- Paramedic
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 292
- Popularidade
- #80,152
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 21
- ISBN
- 29
- Línguas
- 2
Layton is the son of a wealthy St. Louis merchant, he assembles the brigade and makes a treaty with the Crow Indians that allows them access to land that hasn’t been trapped before. The year looks to be highly successful, but unfortunately, treachery is all around them and they must face difficulties with trappers from the Hudson Bay Company and ambush from the Blackfoot Indians. Even when they are on their way out of the mountains, there is no safe passage for them and their pelts.
While the story is fairly predictable, I enjoyed the descriptions of the virgin wilderness and there was plenty of action to keep the pages turning, including confrontations with grizzly bears as well as with the natives. As an adventure and a story of courage, Into the Savage Country was an exciting read.… (mais)