Title: The Indifferent Stars Above Pdf The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
Author: Daniel James Brown
Published Date: 2010-06-01
Page: 384
“An ideal pairing of talent and material. . . . Engrossing. . . . A deft and endearing storyteller.” (Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review)“Daniel James Brown brings the myth to life, transforming faint history class memories into gripping reality.” (BookPage)“[Brown] tells the tale with a novelist’s touch.” (Boston Globe)“A compelling retelling of the ghastly events surrounding the Donner party. Daniel James Brown, using one survivor’s experience as his focus, moves beyond the cardboard figures depicted in previous accounts and shows how the lucky few endured and survived.” (Irvin Molotsky, author of The Flag, The Poet and the Song: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner)“In this gripping narrative, Brown reveals the extremes of endurance that underlie the history of this nation, and more than that, of humanity in any part of the world, even today, surviving great peril in search of a better life.” (Nina Burleigh)“A skillful, suspenseful study of the Donner Party. ... Brown creates a thorough and unique narrative. A moving man-against-nature tragedy that still resonates today.” (Kirkus Reviews)“Remarkable. ... Hard to put down.” (Seattle Times) From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” – Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.In this gripping narrative, New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.
From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier
“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.
In this gripping narrative, New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.
Worth reading once I gave this title three stars because it seemed well researched and informative, but didn't really capture me like I was hoping it would. I found the first 1/3 of the book difficult to get through because it got rather dull and a bit repetitive in some parts. The author did put a lot of effort into descriptions of places and scenery to give the reader a picture in the mind's eye of the setting, which I found to actually be a bit overdone to be honest. The exhaustive scenery descriptions had me skimming the paragraphs searching for the place where it got back to business. All in all I'm glad I stuck it out and read the whole thing, but I would suggest to those contemplating buying this to borrow it from the library instead. It's not the kind of book you read a second or third time, so in my opinion not really worth paying full price for.REMARKABLE! I simply cannot say enough about this writer! As soon as I start reading I am immediately hooked! His writing style and skill just bring the people and the circumstances alive! This is such a moving story about a family(s) who essentially give up their homes to go to CA (which isn't even a state at the time of these events). Imagining the hardships they suffered cannot even be put into words but Daniel Brown puts you there - in that moment with each of the individuals in this story. I am not a person who cries easily but I must say that after a certain horrific event in the story I simply put down my kindle and wept. Not a few tears....I wept. I loved at the end of the story how the author told you what became of the individuals who survived. There was some closure in knowing what became of these courageous people. My husband also read this story and we have built into an upcoming cross country trip plans to stop at Donner Lake based on reading this book. This story and book are remarkable!Interesting, but with issues This is a fascinating story, told in detail that indicates exhaustive research - but still it felt a bit flat as well as somewhat padded. In trying to describe the events by focusing on a single participant, author Brown is forced into a fair amount of conjecture, and never really makes the character of Sarah Graves Fosdick come to life.The epilogue in particular goes on too long - each segment could more or less be boiled down to "I drove to this place where stuff happened, and thought about the stuff that happened."Incidentally, there's a rather glaring formatting error in the Kindle edition of this book: following Chapter 17, chapters 16 and 17 are repeated.before the narrative heads into the Epilogue. This only adds to the sense that the material has been padded to make it book-length, and should be corrected.
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