The Canyon of Bones - Brossura

Wheeler, Richard S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0765351730 ISBN 13: 9780765351739

Casa editrice: Forge, 2008

Riassunto

With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide, leading a wealthy Englishman, Graves Duplessis Mercer and two companions on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys.
Mercer is a peculiar employer. He has come to the American wilderness seeking weird, morbid, thrilling, preferably slightly salacious, material to write up for British tabloids. He has little interest in such amazing natural phenomena as the geysers of the Yellowstone country but is adept in ferreting out stories of cannibalism and similar atrocities.

To the Briton's disappointment, Skye has none of these to offer but does agree to take him to a Missouri River valley where gigantic bones of ancient monsters are thrust out of canyon walls. Skye's Crow Indian wife, Victoria, warns that the bones are sacred among certain tribes, but Mercer insists of taking a "trophy" – a tooth from a tyrannosaurus-like fossil. This act nearly costs the lives of Mercer's party and its guide, Barnaby Skye.

Wheeler's Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the Royal Navy who becomes a legendary mountain man, has been called "the Horatio Hornblower of the Rocky Mountains."

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Richard S. Wheeler is a five-time Spur Award winner from Western Writers of America and is the acclaimed author of such novels as The Fields of Eden, The Buffalo Commons, Aftershocks, Masterson, Eclipse, Exile, An Obituary for Major Reno, and the Barnaby Skye series.

Product Description:

With the trapping trade on the decline, mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work as a guide in the river valleys. Mercer, Skye's guest and English tabloid reporter, insists on taking a "trophy" from sacred grounds--a tooth from a dinosaur-like fossil that nearly costs them their lives.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Forge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0765351730
• ISBN 13: 9780765351739
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 330