Bøger af Frederick Manfred
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- An Autobiographical Novel
198,95 kr. Boy Almighty is an autobiographical novel that recounts the terrifying two years from 1940 to 1942 that Frederick Manfred spent at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota, trying to recover from tuberculosis.
- Bog
- 198,95 kr.
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233,95 kr. Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authentic sounds and colours of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time - the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars.
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- 233,95 kr.
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233,95 kr. In 1862 enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear. Hundreds of whites were killed. Women were taken captive. Told from the point of view of Judith Raveling, a young woman widowed by the uprising, Scarlet Plume draws on the brutal history of the conflict from beginning to end.
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- 233,95 kr.
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263,95 kr. High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skilful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it or continue to be called No Name. Conquering Horse is the first of Frederick Manfred's five-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales.
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- 263,95 kr.
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243,95 kr. Under the veil of one of the oldest and most tragic myths known to humankind, a king is born. Magnus King, the son of a well-born English woman, continues his family''s aristocratic legacy on the frontier of the American West until the night a deadly shooting changes everything. Young Earl Ransom, a man found long ago on the Cheyenne prairie with no memory of his past or of how his destiny is linked to that of Magnus King, finds his way through a tale as old and tragic as the Greek myth of Oedipus.King of Spades is the final volume of Frederick Manfred''s acclaimed five-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales. For this Bison Books Classic edition, Joel Johnson provides a new introduction.Frederick Manfred (1912-94) is the author of twenty-four novels, including the five-volume series The Buckskin Man Tales, which includes Lord Grizzly (finalist for the 1954 National Book Award), Riders of Judgment, Conquering Horse, and Scarlet Plume, all available in Bison Books editions.Joel Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at Augustana College.
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- 243,95 kr.
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198,95 kr. Hunter, trapper, resourceful fighter, and scout, Hugh Glass was just a rugged man among other rugged American frontiersmen until he was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his best friends. Lord Grizzly is the second volume of Frederick Manfred's acclaimed five-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales. For this Bison Books edition, poet Freya Manfred provides a new introduction.
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- 198,95 kr.