Product details
ISBN
9781907973956
Published
2014-03-20
Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Weight
680 gr
Height
25 mm
Width
15 mm
Thickness
2 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
84
Author
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Biographical note
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.
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'.
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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.
Bodie 1 Panamint City 7 Skidoo 31 Salt Wells 45 Hawiku 55 Flagstaff 65
Product details
ISBN
9781907973956
Published
2014-03-20
Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Weight
680 gr
Height
25 mm
Width
15 mm
Thickness
2 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
84
Author
Translated by