Winston Churchill The Crossing ISBN 13: 9781492755937

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Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina. The cabin reeked of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns, on one of which I slept under a bearskin. A rough stone chimney was reared out side, and the fireplace was as long as my father was tall. There was a crane in it, and a bake kettle; and over it great buckhorris held my fathers rifle when it was not in use. On other horns hung jerked bears meat and venison hams, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my fathers best hunting shirt; also, in a neglected corner, several, articles of womans attire from pegs. These once belonged to my mother. A mong them was a gown of silk, of a fine, faded pattern, over which I was wont to speculate. The women at the Cross-R oads, twelve miles away, were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets. But when I questioned my father on these matters he would give me no answers.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Winston Churchill was the most popular novelist in the United States, the J.K. Rowling of his day--his second novel, Richard Carvel, sold a phenomenal two million copies, and his extraordinary fame forced the British Winston Churchill--the future prime minister whom we associate with the name today--to use his middle name to avoid confusion with his American counterpart.

This 1904 novel is considered by many to be Churchill's best, a sweeping historical romance of the settling of the Kentucky frontier during the American Revolution. Meticulously researched, it features appearances by such legendary names as George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, and Daniel Boone.

A century after it was written, Churchill's sensitive and poetic prose continues to bring the era and its players alive for readers today.

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Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.

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  • PublisherCreatespace
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 1492755931
  • ISBN 13 9781492755937
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages178
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