The Rifles (Volume Six of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes) (SIGNED)
by Vollmann, William T. [Vollman, Volmann]
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0670848565
- ISBN 13
- 9780670848560
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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
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st Printing
- 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
- Bookseller catalogs
- *HISTORY, SIGNED, 1ST ED;
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