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Across the Endless River: A Novel
by Thad Carhart
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0385529775
- ISBN 13
- 9780385529778
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. N/N, new hc, 308 pages. Tan colored paper over boards with brown paper around spine and gilt lettering for text. Color illustrated dust jacket with black text on upper and spine; very minimal shelf wear. Interior pages clean, unmarked, unread. This is a delightful story of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and his intriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Europe. Binding is tight and straight.
Synopsis
From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and his intriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Paris.Born in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau was the son of the expedition's translators, Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. Across the Endless River compellingly portrays this mixed-blood child's mysterious boyhood along the Missouri among the Mandan tribe and his youth as William Clark's ward in St. Louis. The novel becomes a haunting exploration of identity and passion as eighteen-year-old Baptiste is invited to cross the Atlantic in 1823 with young Duke Paul of Wurttemberg. During their travels throughout Europe, Paul introduces Baptiste to a world he never imagined. Gradually, Baptiste senses the limitations of life as an outsider. His passionate affair with Paul's older cousin helps him understand the richness of his heritage and the need to fashion his own future. But it is Maura, the beautiful and independent daughter of a French-Irish wine merchant Baptiste meets in Paris, who most influences his ultimate decision to return to the frontier.Rich in the details of life in both frontier America and the European court, Across the Endless River is a captivating novel about a man at the intersection of cultures, languages, and customs.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014188
- Title
- Across the Endless River: A Novel
- Author
- Thad Carhart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385529775
- ISBN 13
- 9780385529778
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Thad Carhart, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, Sacagawea
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