Книга "Raftmates: A Story of the Great River" - это история о группе людей, которые отправляются в путешествие по большой реке на плоту. Вместе они переживают множество приключений и испытаний, таких как штормы, нападения диких животных и встречи с другими путешественниками. Они также узнают много нового о себе и друг о друге, и находят способы преодолеть трудности, которые возникают на их пути. Книга написана в жанре приключенческой литературы и может заинтересовать любителей приключений и путешествий.
Описание книги: Raftmates tells the story of a group of raftsmen and their exploits on the Mississippi River, from their start in Iowa with nothing but homemade rafts to their eventual discovery of gold in California. It's an engaging and adventurous tale set in the pre-Civil War and Gold Rush period.
About the book: When empty-handed Iowans Patrick and Zeke Smith decide to raft down the Mississippi in search of gold, they have no idea what'd experience waiting for them. Along with a determined German named Jeebs and a resilient young woman named Joanna, the boys grow up and face numerous hardships as they venture from state to state, all the while waiting for that lucky break, always just out of sight and reach.
Raftmates by Munroe Kirk is a story about the men and women living on rafts of logs along the Australian Great River. The author of this novel is based on life in the remote Northern Territory of Australia.Kirk's characters live alongside nature and within an environment that is subject to flux and change. These "people apart" obey their own ethics as much as they are shaped by that of the indigenous people with whom they share their landscape. Their lives are marked by relationships; amicable or not so amicable, and by both love and hatred."It's just hard for me to face it," Kirk states, "if I say I'd love to trade places with one of those guys beside me in an instant. I might hate the life ahead of them, but I know that there's almost no chance of that trade going the other way."The Instant Contact featured on the back cover of Raftmates illustrates Karl, the homeless Torres Strait Islander whom Kirk met standing beside his land, his package in hand and the sweep of small objects spilled under his subsaharan feet. Karl and his fellow marginalised groups create their own worlds that converge with and resist the mainstream world in equal measure.As with his other books, Ralph's writing in Raftmates is lyrical and evocative, recalling in its imagery both the empty Northern Territory interior and the dying islands of Papua New Guinea, where he spent time researching the book.
Электронная Книга «Raftmates: A Story of the Great River» написана автором Munroe Kirk в году.
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Язык: Английский
