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Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsAn epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned wayin a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century.
by Dave Eggers
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsThe true story of one family, caught between Americas two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
by Carrie Tiffany
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsThe government "Better Farming Train" brings advice to the small towns of Australia. The train is staffed by irresistibly eccentric agricultural and domestic experts; and when two of the train's experts fall in love, in an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism they settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of ...
by Timothy Egan
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsAs only great history can, Egan's book captures the very voice of the times: its grit, pathos, and abiding courage.
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsAn epic masterpiece set in the 19th century American and Canadian West - a time when worlds collided, were destroyed and were built anew.
by James Houston
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsA powerful retelling of one of the USA's most dramatic pioneer stories--the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism.
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