Priscilla Wegars

Polly Bemis

The Life and Times of a Chinese American Pioneer. Empfohlen 9 bis 21 Jahre. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 529 Seiten

ISBN 0870046403

EAN 9780870046407

Veröffentlicht Oktober 2020

Verlag/Hersteller Caxton Press

€ 28,00 inkl. MwSt.

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Beschreibung

"Imagine a child"€"feet permanently deformed by a cultural fetish"€"raised in destitution; a teenager discarded by her parents, sold to a slaver, pressed into a trans-ocean voyage to a country and language entirely foreign, enduring a horseback journey for hundreds of miles through a wilderness to an isolated mining camp, consigned a new name, never to see or communicate with friends or family again, yet somehow still composing a vigorous life that endeared her to all: this is her story, definitively and meticulously captured by astute historian Dr. Wegars.
More than that, it's the story of an era on a river where people sustained each other with shared work and food, words and kind considerations."
"€" CORT CONLEY, author of River of No Return and Idaho for the Curious