There are those that would curse the darkness, others who would light a candle. Iris chose to bring past crimes and past injustices into the light - she lit a flame and passed it to others.
This thoroughly modern treatise brings the latest thinking and information to the man-in-the-street which is the most widely read narrative of the Middle Ages in the English language.
A demanding, vast, heavyweight of a book is what this is - a remarkable narrative of the grand intellectual venture of humankind, rich in fascinating, dramatic details.
Ambrose has written prolifically about men who were larger than life: he illustrates Lewis's life, his relation to William Clark, and Thomas Jefferson, creating a picture painted in the readers' mind.
Market price: ¥ 178.00
MSL price: ¥ 168.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (June 2, 1997
This book evocatively relates the sad tale of the final displacement of the American Indian from the West, covering the period from 1860 to the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890.
