Ordeal by Hunger

Award-winning author George R. Stewart's history of the Donner Party is “compulsive reading -- a wonderful account,...
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Ordeal by Hunger

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Ordeal by Hunger

$27.72
Author: George R. Stewart
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Award-winning author George R. Stewart's history of the Donner Party is “compulsive reading -- a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of horrifying episode in the history of the west" (Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George R. Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers. Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party is an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.



Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 01/30/1992
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.54w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780395611593

About the Author
Stewart, George R.: -

George R. Stewart (1895-1980) is the author of Pickett's Charge, Names on the Land, and the International Fantasy Award-winner Earth Abides, as well as numerous other books of history, biography, and fiction. He taught for more than fifty years at the University of California, Berkeley.

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