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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061348104
ISBN-139780061348105
eBay Product ID (ePID)71138908
Product Key Features
Book TitleIndifferent Stars above : the Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicWomen, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / West / General, United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, General, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), Historical
GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDaniel James Brown
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-040646
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ReviewsThe Indifferent Stars Above is an ideal pairing of talent and material.engrossing.Brown isn't a showy writer and that's probably for the best. With tragedy of this scale an unadorned telling of the events speaks loudest.. The understatement of simple circumstance delivers the wallop all by itself., Looks at the Donner party tragedy through the lens of modern science to determine why some people turn to cannibalism.and others just die.remarkable.. a hard-to-put-down book about a event in American history that has been sensationalized, mythologized and maligned. What Brown has done is made it understood., In this gripping narrative, Brown reveals the extremes of endurance that underlie the history of this nation, and more than that, of humanity in any part of the world, even today, surviving great peril in search of a better life., Daniel James Brown brings the myth to life, transforming faint history class memories into gripping reality., Brown draws from the many previously published accounts of the tragedy, letters from the party and those who knew them, accounts of life on the Oregon and California trails, genealogical databases, and his own travel along the trail.but he tells the tale with a novelist's touch., "An ideal pairing of talent and material. . . . Engrossing. . . . A deft and endearing storyteller." -- Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. ... Hard to put down." -- Seattle Times "A compelling retelling of the ghastly events surrounding the Donner party. Daniel James Brown, using one survivor's experience as his focus, moves beyond the cardboard figures depicted in previous accounts and shows how the lucky few endured and survived." -- Irvin Molotsky, author of The Flag, The Poet and the Song: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner "A skillful, suspenseful study of the Donner Party. ... Brown creates a thorough and unique narrative. A moving man-against-nature tragedy that still resonates today." -- Kirkus Reviews "Daniel James Brown brings the myth to life, transforming faint history class memories into gripping reality. ... Utterly compelling." -- BookPage "[Brown] tells the tale with a novelist's touch." -- Boston Globe "A fresh and intriguing telling . . . . engrossing and appalling in equal measure. Never melodramatic or maudlin, Brown's work gracefully balances graphic depictions of extreme privation with humanizing glimpses of the emigrants' everyday hopes and fears. Brown also skillfully weaves relevant historical, cultural, and scientific information . . . creating a rich and contextualized background." -- Library Journal "In this gripping narrative, Brown reveals the extremes of endurance that underlie the history of this nation, and more than that, of humanity in any part of the world, even today, surviving great peril in search of a better life." -- Nina Burleigh, A skillful, suspenseful study of the Donner Party, narrated from the point of view of a newly married woman.Wading through the many previous accounts of the ill-fated journey, Brown creates a thorough and unique narrative. A moving man-against-nature tragedy that stillresonates today.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal978/.02092 B
SynopsisIn April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so days before the planned departure she married the young man with the violin, and the two of them threw their lot in with the rest of Sarah's family. On April 12, they rolled out of the yard of their homestead in three ox-drawn wagons.Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, Sarah and her family arrived at Truckee Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. After a series of desperate attempts to cross the mountains, the party improvised cabins and slaughtered what remained of their emaciated livestock. By early December they were beginning to starve.Sarah's father, a Vermonter, was the only member of the party familiar with snowshoes. Under his instruction, fifteen sets of snowshoes were hastily constructed from oxbows and rawhide, and on December 15, Sarah and fourteen other relatively young, healthy people set out for California on foot, hoping to get relief for the others. Over the next thirty-two days they endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. In this gripping narrative, Daniel James Brown takes the reader along on every painful footstep of Sarah's journey. Along the way, he weaves into the story revealing insights garnered from a variety of modern scientific perspectives psychology, physiology, forensics, and archaeology producing a tale that is not only spell-binding but richly informative. ", "An ideal pairing of talent and material... Engrossing." -Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review "Brown draws from the many previously published accounts of the tragedy... but he tells the tale with a novelist's touch." -Boston Globe Reminiscent of Into Thin Air, Miracle in the Andes, and the works of Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato) and Douglas Brinkley (The Wilderness Warrior, The Great Deluge), The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown (Under a Flaming Sky) reveals the tragic story of the doomed Donner party, as seen through the prism of one young woman who survived., From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier "An ideal pairing of talent and material.... Engrossing.... A deft and ambitious storyteller." - Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. In this gripping narrative, New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah's journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.
LC Classification NumberF868.N5B838 2009
