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The last crossing [abridged]

Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, this is a tale of interwoven lives and stories. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to help find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. The group soon grows to include a sycophantic American journalist, a beautiful woman who wants to avenge her sister's vicious murder, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and a saloonkeeper.

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  • "Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, this is a tale of interwoven lives and stories. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to help find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. The group soon grows to include a sycophantic American journalist, a beautiful woman who wants to avenge her sister's vicious murder, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and a saloonkeeper."@en
  • "When Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West, they hire Jerry Potts to guide them on their journey."@en
  • "Ordered by their father to find their missing brother, two Englishmen set off for America, where guide Jerry Potts and a growing number of companions journey by wagon train."@en
  • "Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, this is a tale of interwoven lives and stories. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to help find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. The group soon grows to include a sycophantic American journalist, a beauthiful woman who wants to avenge her sister's vicious murder, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and a saloonkeeper."
  • "Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, this is a tale of interwoven lives and stories. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to help find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. The group soon grows to include a sycophantic American journalist, a beautiful woman who wants to avenge her sister's vicious murder, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and saloonkeeper."@en
  • "This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key area in American History, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Charles and Addington are two brothers sent from the comforts of Victorian England by their dictatorial father to find Simon, a brother missing somewhere in the depths of the American West. As Charles, a sensitive painter, and Addington, an arrogant former soldier, search the American frontier, they gather a troupe of other characters--Lucy, bent on avenging her sister's death, Custis, a Civil War veteran, and Jerry Potts, a half-breed. The love story that emerges eventually forces Charles to confront the meaning of love--and what it means to cross over."@en
  • "Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, set off to Fort Benton in America and enlist the services of a guide to lead them north, where Simon was last seen. The brothers hire the enigmatic Jerry Potts, half Blackfoot, half Scot, who suffers from his own painful past. At Addington's command, the party grows to include Caleb Ayto, a sycophantic American journalist, who is to record the journey for posterity; Lucy Stoveall, a fiery and beautiful woman who is bent on finding the men who viciously killed her sister; Custis Straw, a Civil War veteran in love with Lucy; and saloon keeper Aloysius Dooley. This unlikely posse, now encumbered with both psychological baggage and wagon trains, becomes entangled in an unfolding drama that forces each to come to terms with his or her own demons."@en
  • "[This is a] tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. [In this novel, the author] takes us on an exhilarating journey from the ivy-covered towers of Oxford in Victorian England to the dusty whiskey trading posts of the nineteenth-century American and Canadian West. Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, set off to Fort Benton in America and enlist the services of a guide to lead them north, where Simon was last seen. The brothers hire the enigmatic Jerry Potts, half Blackfoot, half Scot, who suffers from his own painful past. At Addington's command, the party grows to include Caleb Ayto, a sycophantic American journalist, who is to record the journey for posterity; Lucy Stoveall, a fiery and beautiful woman who is bent on finding the men who viciously killed her sister; Custis Straw, a Civil War veteran in love with Lucy; and saloon keeper Aloysius Dooley. This unlikely posse, now encumbered with both psychological baggage and wagon trains, becomes entangled in an unfolding drama that forces each to come to terms with his or her own demons. Told from alternating points of view and in vivid flashbacks, [the novel] conveys the varied lives of its search party in haunting scenes-a bear hunt at dawn, the discovery of an Indian village decimated by smallpox, a sharpshooter's devastating annihilation of his prey, a soldier's guilt-ridden memory of his own survival, and an atypical love story. [This] is a novel of ruggedness and salvation, an epic masterpiece set in a time when worlds collided, were destroyed, and were built anew.-Dust jacket."
  • "Set in the last part of the nineteenth century, this is the story of Charles and Addington who search for their missing brother in the wilds of the American west."
  • "Set in the last part of the nineteenth century, this is the story of Charles and Addington who search for their missing brother in the wilds of the American west."@en
  • "Ordered by their father to find their missing brother, Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt set off to America, where guide Jerry Potts and a growing number of companions journey by wagon train and confront a number of personal demons."@en
  • "Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their father to find their brother Simon who has gone missing in the wilds of the North American West. In the outreaches of the Montana frontier, the brothers hire the enigmatic Jerry Potts to lead them north, where Simon was last seen."
  • "Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, set off to remote Fort Benton on the edge of the Montana frontier. The brothers hire the enigmatic Jerry Potts, a half Blackfoot, half Scot guide, to lead them North, where Simon was last seen."@en

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  • "Canadian fiction"@en
  • "DAISY books"@en
  • "Epic fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Adult books on CD"@en
  • "Sound recordings"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Compact discs"@en
  • "Talking books"@en

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  • "The last crossing [abridged]"@en
  • "The last crossing"
  • "The last crossing"@en
  • "The last crossing : a novel"@en
  • "The last crossing [talking book CD]"@en
  • "The last crossing a novel"@en
  • "The Last Crossing"@en
  • "Last crossing"

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