Prairie Fever by Peter Pagnamenta
A deeply researched and finely delivered look at what can best be described as a counterintuitive slice of American history.Washington Post
A lost-and deeply weird-world. . has been lovingly excavated and brought back to life.
-- Miranda Seymour - New York Times Book Review
Mr. Pagnamenta tells this story with verve and style. His love of tales of derring-do on the prairie matches his subjects . . . a constant delight.
-- Judith Flanders - Wall Street Journal
Astute, detached, droll, and elegantly put together . . . an exemplary cross-cultural study. -- Ben Downing - New Criterion
Something of the magic of the Great West - its big skies and great rivers and prairies filled with game - can be found in Peter Pagnamenta's compelling narrative of the mania for the prairie grasslands that swept British aristocrats in the middle of the 19th century. Grand solitary travelers came first and their tales of adventure brought scores and then hundreds of others - lords and younger sons needing a way to live and retired military officers and men hoping to get rich and sportsmen who wanted a grizzly and dreamers who imagined a ranching kingdom might end boredom once and for all. It's an extraordinary story, told in Prairie Fever with the kind of energy that makes you want to drop everything and go. -- Tom Powers, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author of The Killing of Crazy Horse
-- Miranda Seymour - New York Times Book Review
Mr. Pagnamenta tells this story with verve and style. His love of tales of derring-do on the prairie matches his subjects . . . a constant delight.
-- Judith Flanders - Wall Street Journal
Astute, detached, droll, and elegantly put together . . . an exemplary cross-cultural study. -- Ben Downing - New Criterion
Something of the magic of the Great West - its big skies and great rivers and prairies filled with game - can be found in Peter Pagnamenta's compelling narrative of the mania for the prairie grasslands that swept British aristocrats in the middle of the 19th century. Grand solitary travelers came first and their tales of adventure brought scores and then hundreds of others - lords and younger sons needing a way to live and retired military officers and men hoping to get rich and sportsmen who wanted a grizzly and dreamers who imagined a ranching kingdom might end boredom once and for all. It's an extraordinary story, told in Prairie Fever with the kind of energy that makes you want to drop everything and go. -- Tom Powers, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author of The Killing of Crazy Horse
Peter Pagnamenta is a writer and social historian who lives in London. He is the author of Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393347081 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393347087 |
| Title | Prairie Fever |
| Author | Peter Pagnamenta |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2013-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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