Event Listing - Literary Arts
Tue Mar 11, 2008

Ethan Rarick talks about Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West.


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Date and Time
Cody's Books - Closed
1730 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710 map
district: Berkeley (West)

Tue Mar 11, 2008 (7:00 PM)

Description
Let's allow Simon Winchester to describe Rarick's new book: "This sober, unflinching look at one of the great tragedies of America's pioneering past tells us a great deal that is new about the Donner Party's trials. Rarick scythes away the myths of one of the nation's better-known sagas, and offers up this horrific but ennobling tale in all its freshly researched detail. Readers take heed: this is a tough book, but a gripping one." Ethan Rarick's last book was California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown. 7:00 at Cody's Fourth Street