The Taking of Jemima Boone Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America

Name: The Taking of Jemima Boone
Author: Matthew Pearl

Auteur: Matthew Pearl

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Matthew Pearl

Engels
Hardcover
9780062937780
05 oktober 2021
288 pagina's

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Matthew Pearl

Matthew Pearl is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, and The Technologists. His books have been New York Times bestsellers and international bestsellers translated into more than thirty languages.

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A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front. Pulitzer Prizewinning author Stacy Schiff

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In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boones daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation.

On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air.

A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky's most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good.

With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring greater peace both to the tribes and the colonists. But after the girls find clever ways to create a trail of clues, the raiding party is ambushed by Boone and the rescuers in a battle with reverberations that nobody could predict. As Matthew Pearl reveals, the exciting story of Jemima Boones kidnapping vividly illuminates the early days of Americas westward expansion, and the violent and tragic clashes across cultural lines that ensue.

In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into Americas transition from colony to nation, with the heavy moral costs incurred amid shocking new alliances and betrayals.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 oktober 2021
Aantal pagina's: 288

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Hoofdauteur: Matthew Pearl
Hoofduitgeverij: Collins

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Product breedte: 157 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 226 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 157 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 226 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 363 g

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EAN: 9780062937780

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Sociale groepen

Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis

Etnische studies

Periodes

Nieuwe tijd (1500-1800)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Land: Verenigde Staten
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek

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