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Escalante's Dream

David Roberts

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  • 360 sidor
  • 2019
In late July 1776, fathers Francisco Atanasio Domnguez and Francisco Vlez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to chart a route to the new Spanish missions in California. The Fransiscans planned to scout the country for mineral wealth and locate the Ute and Navajo tribes for conversion. In present-day Utah, however, the dangers of starvation and hypothermia forced them to turn back. By November the friars were reduced to survival mode: stymied by the raging Colorado River, they had to kill their horses for food. In this adventure-history, David Roberts travels the Spaniards forgotten route, using Escalantes first-person report as his guide. Blending personal and historical narrative, he relives the glories, catastrophes and courage of this desperate journey.
  • Författare: David Roberts
  • Illustratör: 1 map 8 pages of photographs
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780393652062
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 360
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-08-13
  • Förlag: WW Norton & Co