The last crossing
CD Audiobook |
Abridged. |
BTC Audiobooks,
[Fredericton, N.B.] :
p2004.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleming - Beamsville | TB FIC Vande | Audiobooks - Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
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<U+2019>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.
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Details
- ISBN: 0864923945
- Physical Description: 4 compact sound discs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.sound discsound recording
- Edition: Abridged.
- Publisher: [Fredericton, N.B.] : BTC Audiobooks, p2004.
- General Note: Winner of the Canada Reads Award, CBC Radio, 2004."Jerry Potts was a real historical figure. Some of the incidents in the novel are based on actual events and people in his life. Other events and characters are entirely fictitious"--T.p. verso (print edition)."As broadcast on CBC Radio"--Container.
- Participant or Performer Note: Narrated by Shauna Black, Patrick Galligan, Hardee Lineham, Eric Peterson and Joseph Ziegler.
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Awards Note:
Winner of the Canada Reads Award, CBC Radio, 2004.