Canoe and the Saddle

English

ISBN: 0803298633

EAN: 9780803298637

Category: Travel / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)/Foreign Language Study / Native American Languages/Travel / Central America/

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release Date: 12/31/2006

Synopsis: View the Table of Contents and read an excerpt In 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.The Canoe and the Saddlerecounts Theodore Winthrops Northwest tour. A novelized memoir of his travels, it became a bestseller when it was published shortly after the authors untimely death in the Civil War. This critical edition of Winthrops work, the first in over half a century, offers readers the original text with a narrative overview of the nature and culture of the Pacific Northwest and reflections on the ecological and racial turmoil that gripped the region at the time. It also provides a fresh perspective on the aesthetic, historical, cultural, anthropological, social, and environmental contexts in which Winthrop wrote his sometimes disturbing, sometimes enlightening, and always riveting account. Whether offering portraits of Native American culturein particular, commenting on the Chinook Jargonmaking keen and often prescient observations on nature, or deploying transcendental, animist, or Hudson River School aesthetics (likely learned from his friend Frederick Church), Winthrop develops a clear and compelling picture of a time and place still resonant and relevant today. Also available:The Wide Northwest: Historic Narrative of Americas Wonder Land as Seen by a Pioneer Teacherby Leoti L. West

Excerpt: Unknown Property Excerpt

Canoe and the Saddle

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.57 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 11.99 oz

Pages: 240