FAITH AND BETRAYAL(ISBN=9781400034734)
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was movedby the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England forUtah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippiby riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary ofher extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal , SallyDenton, an award-winning journalist and Rio’sgreat-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-createRio’s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty ofUtah, Rio’s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionmentover Mormon polygamy and violence against nonbelievers, as well asthe harshness of frontier life. She sets out for California, whereshe finds a new religion and the freedom she longed for. Unusuallyintimate and full of vivid detail, this is an absorbing story of aquintessential American pioneer.
¥42.70
STATE OF JONES, THE(ISBN=9780767929462) 英文原版
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: Make room in yourunderstanding of the Civil War for Jones County, Mississippi, wherea maverick small farmer named Newton Knight made a local legend ofhimself by leading a civil war of his own against the Confederateauthorities. Anti-planter, anti-slavery, and anti-con*ion,Knight and thousands of fellow poor whites, army deserters, andrunaway slaves waged a guerrilla insurrection against the secessionthat at its peak could claim the lower third of Mississippi aspro-Union territory. Knight, who survived well beyond the war (andfathered more than a dozen children by two mothers who livedalongside each other, one white and one black), has long been anotorious, half-forgotten figure, and in The State of Jonesjournalist Sally Jenkins and Harvard historian John Stauffercombine to tell his story with grace and passion. Using courttran*s, family memories, and other sources--and filling theremaining gaps with stylish evocations of crucial moments in thewider war--Jenkins and
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