Edwin bryant thomas d clark (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. The Number Line Indicates A Third Printing Of This Trade Paperback Edition. No Ownership Information Present And The Text Appears To Be Free Of Notation. The Book Has A Faint Crease To The Front Cover And A Small Faint Smudge On The Foredges.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xvi, 787-1023pp. Tear in gutter of preliminary page, scattered foxing on pages, spine age-toned and creased, about very good. Featuring "Uncle Remus and the Ubiquitous Rabbit" by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; "An Interview with William Styron" by Ben Forkner and Gilbert Schricke. Poetry by Wendell Berry entitled *Song*; *The Cold Pane*; *Goods*; *A Dance*; and *A Purification*. Contributions by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., William Bedford Clark, William C. Havard, William F. Steirer, Jr., Jerry H. Bryant, Speer Morgan, Richard P. Adams, Andre Malraux, Max Webb, Edwin Mims, Donald Davidson, Ben Forkner, Gilbert Schricke, Wendell Berry, Thomas H. Landess, Pinkie, Gordon Lane, Kathryn Stripling, Frank Manley, Van K. Brock, Claude Koch, Larry Rubin, Michael Cass, Louis Dollarhide, and Ingrid Smith.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 476 pages. cover worn, First published in 1848, What I Saw in California has long been recognized as the foremost trail guide for the Forty-niners. Almost overnight, Edwin Bryant b ecame their authority on how to survive the grueling passage from Independence, Missouri, to San Francisco, and how to prosper in the Promised Land. He also ser ved as a literary model for the diarists among them. His popular book was based on journals describing fully his tour west in 1846. For the Kentucky newspaper man, it had been an undertaking with an uncertain outcome, since the overland tr ail was still faint and the fabled, remote California was then in political turm oil. In fact, Bryant's party had headed straight into the Mexican War. For today 's reader, What I Saw in Califorinia is more than a trail guide. It is a valuabl e primary source of information about the westering experience. In sharp detail, the book portrays births, weddings, and deaths on the trail and the strategies of men and women desperately trying to survive in the adventure of their lives. It introduces such figures as William H. Russell, Joseph Walker, John Charles Fr émont, and Stephen Watts Kearny, and includes an early account of the Donner tr agedy and of the kaleidoscopic life in California immediately following the Amer ican conquest. Its language fixes the restless, feverish wandering that characte rized Edwin Bryant and so many of his generation.…

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Zustand: New. Portrays births, weddings, and deaths on the trail and the strategies of men and women desperately trying to survive in the adventure of their lives. This book includes an account of the Donner tragedy and of the kaleidoscopic life in California immediately.