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Loading... Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives (Library of America) (edition 2004)by Washington Irving
Work InformationWashington Irving: Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairie / Astoria / The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (Library of America) by Washington Irving
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. If John Jacob Astor's plans had succeeded, we would have read his name in our 8th grade history book alongside Daniel Boone and the other myths of the early American times. This is a fine tale, nevertheless. The character of the lives of these men is worth the read. ( ) I like the Library of America books, they are a good quality--feels-good-to-read--kind of book. These three works by Washington Irving all fit well together. I have two of them, but bought this for "adventures of Captain Boneville," which it contains along with "astoria" and "tour on the prairies." Boneville is kinda hard to find, gotta love Tour on the prairies, and Astoria is one of the earliest true american historical works. Won't go into the details of these books, but again the format is a good one here. no reviews | add a review
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From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and inhabitants with an eye to romantic sublimity and celebrating the frontiersman's "secret of personal freedom," Irving published his account of that journey in 1835 as A Tour on the Prairies, an early and distinctly American depiction of the young nation's borderland and its native inhabitants. Irving followed up this eyewitness account with two works that chart the dramatic and tumultuous history of the early American fur trade, very much in the spirit of James Fenimore Cooper's Leather stocking Tales. Astoria (1836) recounts John Jacob Astor's attempt to establish a commercial empire in the Pacific Northwest. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837) is a lively saga of exploration among the mountains, rivers, and deserts of the Far West. While working closely from original documents, Irving wrote also as a mythologist of the vast spaces traversed by "Sindbads of the wilderness." In these three compelling narratives he opened up a crucial region of the American literary imagination influencing such authors as Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. No library descriptions found. |
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