True Account (ePub)
A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions
(Sprache: Englisch)
An explorer and his nephew set out to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific in this humorous historical novel by the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.
In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson-schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and...
In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson-schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and...
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An explorer and his nephew set out to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific in this humorous historical novel by the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.
In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson-schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer-sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis's expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives; and outwit True's lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the Devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting...
A Top Ten Book Sense 76 Selection
Praise for The True Account
"A madcap what-if story... a cock-eyed joyride through history." -Washington Post
"Picaresque is too tame a word for this imagined romp... A great adventure." -Los Angelese Times Book Review
"The funniest historical novel about the West since Little Big Man." -Denver Post
"Mosher calls to mind the best of Mark Twain-mischievous, touching, and very funny." -Carl Hiaasen
"Clever... . Fun and fanciful with much to savor, Mosher's novel demonstrates a boundless imagination and a light comic touch." -Publishers Weekly
In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson-schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer-sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis's expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives; and outwit True's lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the Devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting...
A Top Ten Book Sense 76 Selection
Praise for The True Account
"A madcap what-if story... a cock-eyed joyride through history." -Washington Post
"Picaresque is too tame a word for this imagined romp... A great adventure." -Los Angelese Times Book Review
"The funniest historical novel about the West since Little Big Man." -Denver Post
"Mosher calls to mind the best of Mark Twain-mischievous, touching, and very funny." -Carl Hiaasen
"Clever... . Fun and fanciful with much to savor, Mosher's novel demonstrates a boundless imagination and a light comic touch." -Publishers Weekly
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Howard Frank Mosher
- 2014, 352 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: HMH Books
- ISBN-10: 0544391268
- ISBN-13: 9780544391260
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.07.2014
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