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Chargement... The Canoe and the Saddle : Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests; and Isthmiana.par Theodore Winthrop
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Though often elitist and prejudicial, Winthrop's travel took chutzpah - though some of the details may have perhaps been exaggerated, who knows... Still a fairly remarkable tale, though, and one featuring lots of romantic naturalistic literary flourish, while remaining quite readable. Also, in his "Tale of The Dalles", he recounts an Indian legend of what would become known as the great Bretz floods long before Bretz advanced his controversial theory of monumental ice age flooding that scoured the landscape of Eastern Washington. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Offers a narrative overview of the nature and culture of the Pacific Northwest; reflecting on its ecological and racial turmoil. This book provides a fresh perspective on the aesthetic, historical, cultural, anthropological, and social contexts in which Winthrop wrote his sometimes disturbing, sometimes enlightening, and always riveting account. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)917.970444History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America West Coast U.S. WashingtonClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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... "A twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. A novelized memoir of his travels, it became a bestseller when it was published shortly after the author's untimely death in the Civil War." The author, Major Winthrop, was one of the first Union officers killed in the Civil War in 1861.
A novelization of the author's Northwest tour made in 1853, providing a vivid picture of the nature and culture of the pacific Northwest and descriptive conversations with the Chinook, Kallapooga, Haida Indians, among others. His narrative is told with considerable humor, and contains 4 pages of Chinook vocabulary. The second work, "Isthmiana, " was a sketch found among Winthrop's papers, a rapidly written journal of his travels in the Isthmus of Panama.
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