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Chargement... Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood (Great Lakes Books)par Bruce Catton
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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. Catton does several things in this short memoir. He tells the history of the cutting down of the trees of Michigan, including interesting discussions of the technological advances that made thorough clear-cutting possible and, he would argue, inevitable. He tells the story of one small town, and of his father. And he returns repeatedly to his themes of progress, and the inevitability of any advance being pushed as far as it will go. This leaves him pretty pessimistic about the future of humans on earth & nothing in the past 36 years has proved him wrong. It is also, of course, a memoir of his childhood & a recollection of his state of mind as a boy & very young man. 3731. Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood, by Bruce Catton (read 13 Apr 2003) This is an account by the famed Civil War historian of his growing up in Benzonia, Michigan, a dying lumber town with a population about that of the town where I grew up, so though he is older some of what he had to say resonated with me. This is a book in the same genre as An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, Jimmy Carter's account of his boyhood, which I read with much appreciation 11 Mar 2001, and which is better than this book. Catton says 'early youth is exactly like old age: it is a time of waiting before a big trip to an unknown destination.' aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Bruce Catton, whose name is identified with Civil War history, grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, probably the only town within two hundred miles, he says, not founded to cash in on the lumber boom. In this memoir, Catton remembers his youth, his family, his home town, and his coming of age. With nostalgia, warmth, and humor, Catton recalls it all with a wealth of detail: the logging industry and its tremendous effect on the face of the state, the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic who first sparked his interest in the Civil War, the overnight train trips on long-gone "sleepers," the days of great resort hotels, and fishing in once clear lakes. Although he writes of a time and place that are no more, his observations have implications that both underline the past and touch the future. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)917.74History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in North America Midwestern U.S. MichiganClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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