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The Rifles - Vol. 6 of Seven Dreams - A Book of North American Landscapes

The Rifles - Vol. 6 of Seven Dreams - A Book of North American Landscapes

The Rifles - Vol. 6 of Seven Dreams - A Book of North American Landscapes

The Rifles - Vol. 6 of Seven Dreams - A Book of North American Landscapes

by Vollmann, William T

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1994. First Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9. 411 Pages. Dus jacket price #22.95 is unclipped. Illustrated throughout with maps and drawings. The Washington Post describes the author as the most talented and historically important American novelist under thirty-five. This sixth book in the Seven Dreams series Vollmann examines the clash of Native Americans and their European colonizers in a gripping tale of adventure, a contemporary love story, and a chronicle of the ongoing destructjion of Inuit lifeways. Written with the same stylistic daring and gritty realism as in previous work he weaves together stories from the past and present with Vollmann's own travles. Most dramatic of all is his eerie account of a midwinter solo trip to the North Magnetic Pole. Contents in Seven Chapters: King William Island, Pond Inlet, Resolute Bay, Inukjuak, Northwest Passages, Peel Sound, and King William Island. Four Glossaries: Personal Names, Nations Organizations and Kinship Terms, Places, and General. Endpaper Maps.

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Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, William T. Vollmann 's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of the mid-1800s, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage. As Sir John Franklin embarks on his fourth Arctic voyage, he defies the warnings of the native people, and his journey ends in ice and death. But his spirit lingers in the Canadian north, where 150 years later, in 1990, Inuit elders dream of long-gone seal-hunting days and teenagers sniff gasoline. And when a white man seduces and leaves pregnant a young Indian woman, he becomes Franklin reincarnated, bound for the same fate. Vollmann's vivid characters and landscapes weave together the stories of the past and present to live out America's ongoing tragedy of greed, ignorance, and violence.

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Title
The Rifles - Vol. 6 of Seven Dreams - A Book of North American Landscapes
Author
Vollmann, William T
Format/Binding
Hard Back
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
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Edition
First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0670848565
ISBN 13
9780670848560
Publisher
Viking Press
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published
1994
Size
6" x 9
Keywords
ARCTIC REGIONS FICTION ACTION ADVENTURE

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