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Dance on the Wind
Автор:
Johnston Terry
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-02
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
148

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The sequel to Dance on the Wind continues the saga of the adventures of Titus ''Scratch'' Bass, a nineteenth-century Kentucky farm boy who becomes a frontiersman along the Ohio River. Reprint. From Publishers Weekly Fourth in Johnston's series of historicals about mountain man Titus Bass (after One-Eyed Dream), this entry goes back to Titus's youth, in the early 1800s. The opening pages, covering the future legend's years as a Kentucky farmboy, move slowly as Titus debates whether to run away from home. The story picks up speed, plot and action when, restless and hungry for adventure at age 16, he finally does, joining the jolly crew of a flatboat carrying cargo from Cincinnati to New Orleans, a dangerous 1000-mile trip down the majestic Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Handy with...

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Dance on the Wind :
The sequel to Dance on the Wind continues the saga of the adventures of Titus ''Scratch'' Bass, a nineteenth-century Kentucky farm boy who becomes a frontiersman along the Ohio River. Reprint. From Publishers Weekly Fourth in Johnston's series of historicals about mountain man Titus Bass (after One-Eyed Dream), this entry goes back to Titus's youth, in the early 1800s. The opening pages, covering the future legend's years as a Kentucky farmboy, move slowly as Titus debates whether to run away from home. The story picks up speed, plot and action when, restless and hungry for adventure at age 16, he finally does, joining the jolly crew of a flatboat carrying cargo from Cincinnati to New Orleans, a dangerous 1000-mile trip down the majestic Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Handy with a long rifle, pistol and knife, Titus survives Indian attacks, barroom brawls and highway robbery, leaving few opponents upright. When not slugging, sh
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