Prairie - Softcover

Tobin, Greg

 
9780345389466: Prairie
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0345389468 ISBN 13: 9780345389466
Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Spanning the 1400s to the 1800s, an epic story follows the lives of a Native American tribe called the Crane, whose long battles with ancestral enemies and French traders culminate in the adventures of a young, would-be shaman

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Greg Tobin grew up in Independence, Missouri, near Fort Osage and the Platte-Missouri confluence where much of PRAIRIE takes place. He attended Grinnell College and graduated from Yale University. He is the author of a dozen novels about the American West and currently works in New York City as editor-in-chief of the Book-of-the-Month Club. He lives in Orange County, New Jersey, with his family.

Aus dem Klappentext

obin's PRAIRIE is a truly stunning achievement."<br>--Norman Zollinger, Author of Riders to Cibola<br><br>ANCIENT FOES IN A WAR WITHOUT VICTORS<br><br>For centuries, the Crane band roamed the endless prairie, battling their ancestral enemies, the Red Horn people. Then a warrior's vision reveals a chilling prophecy: All tribes will be crushed by a vast army of pale devils. . . . <br><br>DEFIANT PEOPLE IN A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL<br><br>Three hundred years later, French fur trappers invade the land. In the slaughter that ensues, only one white man survives, a missionary who forsakes his god and country to marry a Crane woman and adopt her people's ways. But the battle will rage on. . . . <br><br>THE LAST OF THE CRANES IN A CLASH WITH DESTINY<br><br>As American soldiers establish authority over the land, bending Indian will to the white man's ways, a young, would-be shaman is the only Crane who remains. A visionary, a fighter, a man of infinite sorrow, he alone car

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Verlag
Ballantine Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0345389468
ISBN 13 
9780345389466
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