Allan W. Eckert (1931–2011)
Auteur de La Rencontre : l'aventure véridique de Ben Mac Donald
A propos de l'auteur
Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York on January 30, 1931. He served in the United States Air Force and attended the University of Dayton and Ohio State University. He was a historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime afficher plus including A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood, Wild Season, The Silent Sky, The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, and A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, which were all nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. He received the Newbery Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. He also wrote almost all of the scripts for television's Wild Kingdom and adapted The Frontiersmen into the play Tecumseh! He died of prostate cancer on July 7, 2011 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Allan W. Eckert
The Frontiersman, Wilderness Empire, The Conquerors, Wilderness War, Gateway To Empire, Twilight Of Empire [six volume… (1967) 3 exemplaires
Narratives of America, Books I, II, & III: The Frontiersmen, Wilderness Empire, & The Conquerers. (1980) 1 exemplaire
That Dark and Bloody River : 1 exemplaire
Volume VIII: 1. The Tower; 2. Incident at Hawk's Hill; Stay of Execution; 4. The Mountain Farm; 5. End Play. 1 exemplaire
The frontiersmen, a narrative 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Kirjavaliot - Erehdysten yö (Night of error) ∙ Ilveskissa (The crossbreed) ∙ Kauniita unia rouva Hunter (The deep… (1987) 3 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher: Die Libelle / Mein Leben, mein Dorf / Tollkühn / Begegnung am Bussardhügel (1986) 3 exemplaires
Het Beste Boek 97: Een zak vol knikkers / Aasgier van de golven / Het gebeurde bij de haviksheuvel / Vlucht naar… (1981) 2 exemplaires
The Tower of Babel, The Crossbreed, The Wooden Horse, Swans and Turtles, Christy (1969) 2 exemplaires
Livros condensados: Ema E Eu | Aeroporto | Na Corda Bamba | Aconteceu Em Hawk's Hill — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Het Beste Boek: Risico / De kaping van Pelham een twee drie / De berghoeve / Julians avontuurlijke reis / De bastaard 1 exemplaire
Mrs. Pollyfax på nye Eventyr / Salamanderen / Bastarten / Kaptejn Bligh og Mr. Christian 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Eckert, Allan Wesley
- Date de naissance
- 1931-01-30
- Date de décès
- 2011-07-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Corona, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA - Études
- University of Dayton
Ohio State University - Professions
- historian
playwright
children's book author
novelist - Organisations
- United States Air Force
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Child's 1980s novel about boy who can enter animals' minds à Name that Book (Avril 2018)
a childrens book about a boy who lives in a badger hole à Name that Book (Octobre 2015)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 47
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 4,924
- Popularité
- #5,100
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 60
- ISBN
- 181
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 6
I won’t say more in case someone actually wants to read this. If you have a deep interest in animals, or ever daydreamed (like I did as a kid) about being able to fly like a bird, run as fast as a horse, walk quietly in the night as a cat seeing everything clearly . . . this book will become an instant favorite. There was so much love of nature woven into the story, and fantastic details about how wild animals live their lives, even new things the boy discovered about them (but then couldn’t tell anybody how he’d learned it). This is the greatest by Eckert I’ve read so far- even tops Incident at Hawk’s Hill, which has always been steadfastly among the best books ever, in my mind.… (plus d'informations)