Far Bright Star Paperback - 2010
by Olmstead, Robert
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- Paperback
Set in 1916, "Far Bright Star" follows Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, as he leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa and bring him to justice.
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- Title Far Bright Star
- Author Olmstead, Robert
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 218
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A
- Date 2010
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1565129806I2N00
- ISBN 9781565129801 / 1565129806
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.32 x 5.86 x 0.66 in (21.13 x 14.88 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Mexican
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Villa, Pancho
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008041858
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the jacket flap
The year is 1916. The enemy Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches.
Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler, a horse who s as flinty and seasoned as he. But this time, Napoleon can t control one of his young soldiers who has a penchant for reckless, dramatic actions and who singlehandedly, in his desire to prove himself, makes a move that is the beginning of the end. Before long, Napoleon s patrol is at the mercy of an enemy who is intent not only on killing Napoleon s men but on something much bigger: avenging a brutal act.
Robert Olmstead describes the experience of battle so viscerally that the reader feels the fear, the danger, and the dread. With the precision of a master, he tells the harrowing and transfixing story of the last of these intrepid warriors.
Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler, a horse who s as flinty and seasoned as he. But this time, Napoleon can t control one of his young soldiers who has a penchant for reckless, dramatic actions and who singlehandedly, in his desire to prove himself, makes a move that is the beginning of the end. Before long, Napoleon s patrol is at the mercy of an enemy who is intent not only on killing Napoleon s men but on something much bigger: avenging a brutal act.
Robert Olmstead describes the experience of battle so viscerally that the reader feels the fear, the danger, and the dread. With the precision of a master, he tells the harrowing and transfixing story of the last of these intrepid warriors.
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