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The Rifles (Volume Six of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (SIGNED)

The Rifles (Volume Six of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (SIGNED)

The Rifles (Volume Six of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes)
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The Rifles (Volume Six of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (SIGNED)

by Vollmann, William T. [Vollman, Volmann]

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New York, New York: Viking Penguin, 1994 DJ with very slight rub at lower corners and tail of spine panel (tiny 2 mm tear at front lower corner). DJ in plastic cover with price corner intact. Signed by Vollmann with signature only on the title page. Illus. with drawings and maps in B&W by the author. A volume in a series of historical novels of panoramic vision about the clash between Indians and Europeans in the New World; this volume is about the Inuit. Includes Glossaries, A Chronology of the Sixth Age of Wineland, Sources and a Few Notes, Exchange of Letters on the Relocation Allegations, Equipment List for Isachsen Trip, and Acknowledgements. 411 pp.

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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 (Volume Six of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (SIGNED)
Author
Vollmann, William T. [Vollman, Volmann]
Illustrator
William T. Vollmann
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Hardcover
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ISBN 10
0670848565
ISBN 13
9780670848560
Publisher
Viking Penguin
Place of Publication
New York, New York
Date Published
1994
Keywords
ARCTIC REGIONS FICTION ADVENTURE HISTORICAL ACTION SEVEN DREAMS
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