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Lädt ... Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survivalvon Peter Stark
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Not a bad mixture of history, adventure, politics and other subjects to flesh out the story. Narrative style history that will appeal to many. I would rather give this 3.5 stars on a whole. So much for not having half stars. ( ) An interesting story, and one I'd never even heard of before. However, I'm not sure the narrative really "carried me on." It felt a bit flat in places, and the end come kind of suddenly and without any real sense of conclusion. But an piece of history that I'd otherwise be missing (and wouldn't have known to go looking for) so 4 stars. "Unfolding from 1810-1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship, drawing extensively on firsthand accounts of those who made the journey." "Astoria is the harrowing tale of a quest to settle a Jameston-like colony on the Pacific coawt. Astor set out a global trade network based ar the mouth of the Columbia River in what is now Oregon, while Jefferson envisioned a separate democracy on the western coast that would spread eastward to meet the young United States." Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition , an epic, now forgotten three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Six years after the Lewis and Clark began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson turned their sights to founding a colony on the West Coast.
Stark moves skillfully back and forth from one segment of the splintered expedition to another. He also raises a tantalizing question about the enterprise as a whole. Astor went on to make his fortune in other ways, but what if he’d realized his Pacific Coast dream? Jefferson and other statesmen had given little thought as to how Astoria, as the short-lived outpost was called, would be assimilated into the United States — or whether it would be assimilated at all. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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