Butcher's Crossing
Title | Butcher's Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | John Williams |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2011-03-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590174240 |
Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
Crossing
Title | Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | Pajtim Statovci |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1524747491 |
"The death of head of state Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend, Agim--who is facing his own realizations about his gender and sexuality--gives him hope for the future. Together the two decide to leave everything behind and try their luck in Italy. But the struggle to feel at home--in a foreign country and even in one's own body--will have corrosive effects, spurring a dangerous search for new identities"--
Washington's Crossing
Title | Washington's Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2006-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199756678 |
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.
Rail-highway Crossing Accident/incident and Inventory Bulletin
Title | Rail-highway Crossing Accident/incident and Inventory Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Railroad accidents |
ISBN |
Rail-highway Grade-crossing Accidents for the Year Ended ...
Title | Rail-highway Grade-crossing Accidents for the Year Ended ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Railroad accidents |
ISBN |
TH 36/STH 64 St. Croix River Crossing Project
Title | TH 36/STH 64 St. Croix River Crossing Project PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1052 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Bridges |
ISBN |
Greenville Railroad Demonstration, US-69 Crossing
Title | Greenville Railroad Demonstration, US-69 Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1979 |
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