Skidoo: Meine Reise durch die Geisterstädte des Wilden Westens - Couverture rigide

Capus, Alex

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3446240845 ISBN 13 : 9783446240841

Editeur : Carl Hanser Verlag, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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'.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Carl Hanser Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3446240845
• ISBN 13: 9783446240841
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 80