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OverviewIn the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero, while illuminating the American hero-making process itself. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure trove of reminiscences gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor John Mack Faragher (Yale University) , Professor Grover GardnerPublisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.80cm Weight: 0.327kg ISBN: 9780786161973ISBN 10: 0786161973 Publication Date: 01 July 1993 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsWell written and immensely satisfying in several ways, this biography separates myth from fact while also showing that this is a man about whom legends have been made...Boone speaks to the American spirit in an elemental way that is wonderfully conveyed by this author, in a book that readers will find memorable. -- School Library Journal [Grover Gardner] reads this with a quiet voice, using a variety of expressions and intonations. Faragher's story, combined with [Gardner's] narration, aids in the digestion of this new insight into early American history. -- Library Journal Boone is worthy of historical attention as a personification of the westward movement. Faragher has written an absorbing, definitive biography. -- Publishers Weekly A richly textured portrait of a fascinating, complex man...Faragher's work is unique. -- San Francisco Chronicle [Grover Gardner] reads this with a quiet voice, using a variety of expressions and intonations. Faragher's story, combined with [Gardner's] narration, aids in the digestion of this new insight into early American history. -- Library Journal Boone is worthy of historical attention as a personification of the westward movement. Faragher has written an absorbing, definitive biography. -- Publishers Weekly Well written and immensely satisfying in several ways, this biography separates myth from fact while also showing that this is a man about whom legends have been made...Boone speaks to the American spirit in an elemental way that is wonderfully conveyed by this author, in a book that readers will find memorable. -- School Library Journal A richly textured portrait of a fascinating, complex man...Faragher's work is unique. -- San Francisco Chronicle Author InformationJohn Mack Faragher is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail, for which he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, and the acclaimed Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie. Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the Best Voices of the Century and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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