- Gebundene Ausgabe: 1024 Seiten
- Verlag: Library of America (26. Januar 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1931082537
- ISBN-13: 978-1931082532
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,7 x 13,3 x 3,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 464.338 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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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 Leatherstocking 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.
Über den Autor
James P. Ronda, editor, is H. G. Barnard Professor in Western History at the University of Tulsa and the author of Jefferson’s West: A Journey with Lewis and Clark and Astoria and Empire.
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I would highly recommend this book. Like most people the only story I had read by Washington Irving is the "Headless Horseman". I had heard that he is a great American writer but I had no idea how good he really is until I read this book. It's interesting to note that The Lewis and Clarke expedition had only taken place 1804 to 1806. The area he is traveling through is far from what then is considered civilization. The narrative is very interesting; his trip takes place in 1832 in what is now Oklahoma. At this time the West is still very much an uncharted wilderness. The area is populated by warring tribes who follow the buffalo, steal horses, and kill white people and each other on a regular basis. He gives unvarnished accounts of both the Native American tribes encountered and the hunters and trappers he travels with. Unlike the miserable, sanitized, politically correct version of history we usually encounter, Washington Irving describes what day to life was like on the prairies and traveling through the wilderness. This book is definitely worth reading for anyone who is interested in what life in the west was really like before the civil war and the railroads. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book and plan to read more books by Washington Irving. I'm very pleased to have rediscovered this very famous author who isn't as popular in the present as he probably should be.
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