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The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'The Boys in the Boat' is the story of Joe Rantz, a charismatic young man born dirt poor in the woods of Washington State, who dreams of escaping the challenges of the Great Depression, and a complicated family life full of painful memories. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight oth ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-cla ...Show more
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: P.S.
A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils. In an account that also offers insight into the ...Show more
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350, ...Show more
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