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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke''s The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass. The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

From the #1 international bestselling author of THE REVENANT – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the fascinating story of America’s first battle over the environment.

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant Winner of the 2022 Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel Winner of the 2021 David. J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction 2021 Montana Book Award Honoree In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier—a clash of cultures between the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries and a young, ambitious nation. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming’s Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds, the home of the Lakota. Red Cloud, one of the Lakota’s most respected chiefs, and Crazy Horse, a young but visionary warrior, understand full well the implications of this invasion. For the Lakota, the stakes are their home, their culture, their lives. As fall bleeds into winter, Crazy Horse leads a small war party that confronts Colonel Carrington’s soldiers with near constant attacks. Red Cloud, meanwhile, wants to build the tribal alliances that he knows will be necessary to defeat the soldiers. Colonel Carrington seeks to hold together a US Army beset with internal discord. Carrington’s officers are skeptical of their commander’s strategy, none more so than Lieutenant George Washington Grummond, who longs to fight a foe he dismisses as inferior in all ways. The rank-and-file soldiers, meanwhile, are still divided by the residue of civil war, and tempted to desertion by the nearby goldfields. Throughout this taut saga—based on real people and events—Michael Punke brings the same immersive, vivid storytelling and historical insight that made his breakthrough debut so memorable. As Ridgeline builds to its epic conclusion, it grapples with essential questions of conquest and justice that still echo today.

The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Companys Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader storystriking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.

Em 1823, os caçadores da Companhia de Peles Montanhas Rochosas desbravavam as terras inexploradas dos Estados Unidos, enfrentando diariamente o clima implacável, as feras selvagens e a ameaça constante de confronto com os índios, que defendiam suas terras da invasão dos homens brancos. Em uma das missões da companhia, Hugh Glass, um dos melhores e mais experientes caçadores do grupo, fica frente a frente com um urso-cinzento, é atacado e termina gravemente ferido, claramente sem chances de sobreviver. Os homens que deveriam esperar sua morte e lhe oferecer um funeral apropriado o abandonam, levando consigo as armas e os suprimentos. Entre delírios, Glass os observa fugindo e é tomado por um único desejo: vingança. Uma determinação cega que o torna capaz de atravessar quase cinco mil quilômetros de terras intocadas e selvagens, fugindo de predadores, sobrevivendo à fome e à agonia dos ferimentos mais terríveis, a fim de concluir seu objetivo. Inspirado em fatos reais e escrito em uma prosa arrebatadora, O regresso é uma notável história de obsessão, um romance sobre um homem cuja vida foi ao mesmo tempo salva e condenada pela sede de vingança. “Uma obra soberba sobre vingança.” The Washington Post

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Michael Punke De spookverschijning Het boek dat de inspiratiebron is van de film The Revenant Lees het boek dat de inspiratiebron is van de internationale bioscoopfilm The Revenant Het is 1823. Langs de rivier de Missouri trekt de 36-jarige avonturier Hugh Glass met een groep pelsjagers een onbekend en zeer gevaarlijk gebied in. Glass ondervindt dit gevaar aan den lijve wanneer hij op brute wijze wordt aangevallen door een grizzlybeer. Dagenlang balanceert hij op het randje van de dood. Zijn medereizigers houden het voor gezien: ze stelen zijn wapens en laten Glass alleen in de wildernis achter. De woede om deze laffe daad geeft de stervende man nieuwe kracht en hij zweert wraak. In de maanden die volgen onderneemt Glass - alleen en ongewapend - een onvoorstelbare tocht van bijna 5000 kilometer door de onherbergzame Amerikaanse wildernis, voortgedreven door de drang naar vergelding. De spookverschijning is een avonturenthriller over verraad en wraak, gebaseerd op een waargebeurde geschiedenis. Michael Punke is de Amerikaanse ambassadeur en permanent vertegenwoordiger bij de Wereldhandelsorganisatie in Genève. Hij groeide op in Wyoming, vlak bij de route die Hugh Glass aflegde. Nu verfilmd als The Revenant door de Oscar-genomineerde regisseur Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Biutiful en 21 Grams), met in de hoofdrollen Leonardo DiCaprio en Tom Hardy.

Nel 1866, gli Stati Uniti si sono appena ripresi dalle ferite della Guerra civile. Non c''è tempo però per la pace: una nuova guerra è scoppiata alla frontiera occidentale. È lo scontro tra una nazione giovane e ambiziosa, intenta a realizzare quello che percepisce come il suo «destino manifesto» e le tribú native che in quelle terre vivono da millenni. Ma è anche il momento drammatico in cui si svela la sostanza di cui sono fatti gli uomini: di viltà o coraggio, di spietatezza o speranza. «Come in Revenant, qui Punke riprende un''altra grande leggenda e ne ripropone la versione corretta: una serie di personaggi indimenticabili per il racconto della battaglia di Fetterman, una delle vittorie piú importanti dei nativi sull''esercito americano. Un romanzo travolgente». Philipp Meyer, autore di Ruggine americana e Il figlio Il colonnello Henry Carrington arriva nella valle del Powder, lungo la pista del Montana, per guidare l''esercito: devono proteggere una nuova strada per i cercatori d''oro e i coloni. Per farlo, Carrington decide di costruire un forte, Fort Phil Kearny, in pieno territorio lakota. Ma Nuvola Rossa, uno dei capi lakota piú rispettati, e il giovane ma carismatico guerriero Cavallo Pazzo comprendono immediatamente le implicazioni di questa invasione. Per i Lakota la posta in gioco è la sopravvivenza. Mentre l''autunno sanguina verso l''inverno, Cavallo Pazzo guida un piccolo gruppo di guerrieri che affronta i soldati del colonnello Carrington con attacchi quasi costanti. Nuvola Rossa, nel frattempo, cerca di stringere le alleanze tribali che sa saranno necessarie per sconfiggere i soldati. Il colonnello Carrington, intento a costruire il suo forte, cerca di tenere insieme un esercito americano lacerato e in subbuglio. Il violento e razzista tenente George Washington Grummond vuole affrontare a viso aperto un nemico che considera inferiore. E le truppe sono divise dagli strascichi della Guerra civile e dalla tentazione di disertare per cercare l''oro nei vicini giacimenti. Le scaramucce proseguono finché un episodio farà precipitare la situazione in uno degli scontri piú drammatici, epici e avvincenti della storia del West. Michael Punke, dopo Revenant, scrive un''altra storia di violenza e sopravvivenza in territori estremi: ma questa volta sono uomini che si scontrano e si misurano con la brutalità della Storia. Basato su un episodio storico fedelmente ricostruito, Il crinale è una riflessione attualissima sull''eterna lotta tra conquista e giustizia, guerra e umanità.

Dans une Amérique profondément sauvage, le trappeur Hugh Glass est sévèrement blessé par un ours et laissé pour mort par un traître de son équipe, John Fitzgerald. Glass doit affronter un environnement hostile, un hiver brutal et des tribus guerrières, dans une inexorable lutte pour sa survie, portée par un intense désir de vengeance.

Etats-Unis, 1823. Au cours d’une expédition à travers les Grandes Plaines, le trappeur Hugh Glass est attaqué par un grizzly. Défiguré, le corps déchiqueté, Hugh est confié à deux volontaires chargés de le veiller jusqu’à sa mort puis de l’enterrer. Mais ses gardiens décident d’abandonner le blessé. En plein territoire indien, seul, désarmé et à bout de forces, Glass survit. Son unique motivation : la vengeance. Commence alors la légende de Hugh Glass : l’histoire d’un homme hors du commun qui va parcourir cinq mille kilomètres, depuis le Dakota du Sud jusqu’au Nebraska, pour retrouver ceux qui l’ont trahi. Un roman d’aventures des plus judicieux, une fiction portée par une inspiration qui l’est tout autant. Hubert Artus, Lire. C’est Jeremiah Johnson et Le Comte de Monte-Cristo ensemble, dans les forêts enneigées du Missouri. François Forestier, Le Nouvel Observateur.

A story of survival on the American frontier chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers, but survives and treks through the wilderness to seek justice.

A story of survival on the American frontier chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers, but survives and treks through the wilderness to seek justice.