AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL OF REVENGE, SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white mens encroachment on their land, and other prairie foeslike the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Companys 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.
The Companys captain dispatches two of his men to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies, and to give him the respect of a proper burial. When the two men abandon him instead, taking his only means of protecting himselfincluding his precious gun and hatchet with them, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge.
With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of uncharted American frontier, negotiating predators both human and not, the threat of starvation, and the agony of his horrific wounds. In Michael Punkes hauntingly spare and gripping prose, 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Macmillan (S&s)
ISBN: 9781250071255
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 13/01/2015
Año de edición: 2015
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Michael Punke
Es embajador de los Estados Unidos en la Organización Mundial de Comercio en Ginebra, Suiza. También ha sido parte del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de la Casa Blanca y de Capitol Hill. Anteriormente fue corresponsal del Montana Quarterly y profesor adjunto en la Universidad de Montana. Es autor de libros como Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 y Last Stand: Georde Bird Grinnell, the Beatle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West.