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A carregar... The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party (Stanford General Books)por Richard Rhodes
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In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. There, where the water flowed west to the far Pacific, the more prudent emigrants swung north through present-day Idaho, though that was the longer way west. One group, the Donner Party, braver or more foolhardy than the rest, chose an untried route that would shorten the distance. It did. It also subjected them to obstacles so formidable that it cost many of them their lives. Yet it preserved their names and the story of their travail down through history-crowded years. No work of fiction has rendered this remarkable epic of ordeal with more vividness and power than Richard Rhodes's novel of the Donner Party, The Ungodly. Upon its initial printing in 1973, Rhodes's masterful tale was praised for its realistic and gripping depiction of the struggles faced by that ill-fated group of men, women, and children. Now, more than thirty years later, Stanford University Press has reissued this harrowing and haunting novel. The Ungodly is an unforgettable story of terrible hardship and awesome courage—a story that increases our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full and immeasurable price they paid. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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When that group didn't return, another took its place, also hoping to reach California and leaving starving families behind them. I think most people know what happened, that the people left in the encampment, with nothing left to eat but the hides of buffalo and bear, with some of those left behind already dead, reverted to "the ungodly" in order to survive. richard Rhodes' book presents a stark and grim picture of what may have happened during that long winter. His novel gives a day by day account, with some excerpts from the diary of one member of the party, and at first, I found it a bit dull. How often did he need to write only "hot and cloudless"? But as the story progressed, that sparsity of detail and the daily repetition of events enhanced the despair that the Donner Party must have felt, and when the act of eating the dead happened, I could understand why they finally did what they did, placing survival over societal morality.
A very compelling book for anyone who wants to learn more about California history. (