Skidoo

A Journey through the Ghost Towns of the American West

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Buch | Hardcover
84 Seiten
2014
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus (Verlag)
978-1-907973-95-6 (ISBN)

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Skidoo - Alex Capus
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In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperadoes and cunning Indians, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, discovering bizarre stories that are a match for any Western.
In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperados and cunning Indians, brewers and failing inventors, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, where he descends into a disused silver mine and looks for traces left by the robbers who held-up stage coaches in Death Valley. Capus discovers stories that are a match for any Western: In Bodie the gravediggers used dynamite rather than shovels to blow holes in the ground; in the town of Skidoo, Hootch Simpson, a brawling bartender, was first hung by the mob, then by the law, before being beheaded during his autopsy; in Flagstaff, Capus finds that the legendary Route 66 was, for a time at least, a trail for Edward Fitzgerald Beale's 'Camel Corps'.

Alex Capus is a Swiss-French novelist who writes in German. His best-selling novel Leon and Louise was longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2011. He is also the author of the novels A Matter of Time (2009) and Almost Like Spring, as well as the travelogue Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson and Treasure Island.

Bodie 1 Panamint City 7 Skidoo 31 Salt Wells 45 Hawiku 55 Flagstaff 65

Reihe/Serie Armchair Traveller
Übersetzer Simon Pare
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 15 x 25 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-907973-95-8 / 1907973958
ISBN-13 978-1-907973-95-6 / 9781907973956
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