Stampede
- 288 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
"A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"-- Provided by publisher
Brian Castner Knihy
Brian Castner je autorom literatúry faktu, bývalým pyrotechnikom a vojnovým veteránom z Iraku. Jeho tvorba sa hlboko ponára do tém vojny, traumy a skúmania ľudskej odolnosti. Castnerov štýl je známy svojou surovou úprimnosťou a prenikavým pohľadom na zložitosť ozbrojených konfliktov a ich následkov. Prostredníctvom svojej žurnalistiky a esejí ponúka čitateľom pútave a náročné pohľady na niektoré z najdôležitejších problémov našej doby.
Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike
- 500 stránok
- 18 hodin čítania
In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet -- in winter yet -- woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder.