4.4
Biografieën
From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain 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.
© 2019 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062962225
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 2 april 2019
4.4
Biografieën
From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain 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.
© 2019 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062962225
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 2 april 2019
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Kees
10 nov 2023
Één van de beste boeken die ik over het onderwerp gelezen heb. Boeiend geschreven en ook goed voorgelezen. De schrijver gaat diep op de zaak in en besteed veel aandacht aan de verschillende deelnemers van de Donner party. Hij gaat moeilijke momenten niet uit de weg. Hierdoor is het beluisteren van het dieptepunt van de tocht, de winter in de Sierra Nevada, wel confronterend. Toch hoort ook dit deel bij het verhaal en uiteindelijk krijgt de luisteraar hierdoor een compleet beeld van de treurige geschiedenis.
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