The California Trail An Epic With Many Heroes

History

George R. Stewart

Americas

McGraw=Hill

Ordeal by Hunger

Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap)

EARTH ABIDES

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Fawcett

Ordeal By Hunger 
"Comes to life in horror and tragedy"-SaturdayReview 
Eighty-seven people-men, women, and children-set out overland for California. At the insistence of a foolish guide, the ill-fated Donner Party braved a new route across a barren wasteland, only to reach the Sierra where they were trapped by snow and storms. 
What followed is a tale of incredible hardship in which many perished and only a few survived-through the desperate extremes of cannibalism. 
Plus: Actual accounts from the survivors diaries.

Pocket

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 Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

P5 Glossy paperback 1986 310p. 8.50x5.25x0.80 The Story of the Donner Party BOOK ABOUT PEOPLE LIVED UNREALISED THE POTENTIALITY OF HEROISM TO THE POINT OF THE QUIXOTIC.

Michael Haag Limited

The California Trail: An epic with many heroes (The American Trails Series)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

[Read by Jeff Riggenbach] 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 and were 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 Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers -- an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

Blackstone Audiobooks

[MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Jeff Riggenbach] 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 and were 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 Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers -- an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

Earth Abides

An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature. Its impact is still fresh, its lessons timeless. When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly, inexorably, breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into barbarism . . . or extinction. This is the story of one such survivor, Isherwood “Ish” Williams, an intellectual loner who embraces the grim duty of bearing witness to what may be humanity’s final days. But then he finds Em, a wise and courageous woman who coaxes his stunned heart back to life and teaches him to hope again. Together, they will face unimaginable challenges as they sow the seeds of a new beginning. “One of the finest of all post-holocaust novels.” — The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

United States

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