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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michael Wallis (Paperback, 2018)

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This is an excellent reexamination of an infamous saga. He"s done it again with this superbly researched and written account of the Donner Party trip west toward glory and riches that ended in bizarre catastrophe.

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WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA! In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the American dream, this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. With The Best Land Under Heaven, Wallis has penned what critics agree is destined to become the standard account (Washington Post) of the notorious saga. Cutting through 160 years of myth-making, the expert storyteller (True West) compellingly recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate. Interweaving information from hundreds of newly uncovered documents, Wallis illuminates how a combination of greed and recklessness led to one of America's most calamitous and sensationalized catastrophes. The result is a fascinating, horrifying, and inspiring (Oklahoman) examination of the darkest side of Manifest Destiny. 9781631494024[/ISBN][COPY_WEB_CATALOG]Hailed as a nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atlantic (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis's The Gulf is by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of 'America's Sea' (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America's political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf's fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood's role in the country's first offshore oil wells, this vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a 'national sacrifice zone' (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written (Edward O. Wilson).

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Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9781631494000
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15046355106

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Author
Michael Wallis
Publication Name
The Best Land under Heaven: the Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
496 Pages

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211mm
Item Width
142mm
Item Weight
373g

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Michael Wallis
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