The Revenant

Author: Michael Punke

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9780008124021
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
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  • : October 2015
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.98
  • : December 2015
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  • : Michael Punke
  • : Paperback
  • : Film tie-in edition
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Barcode 9780008124021
9780008124021

Description

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes--like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. The Company's captain dispatches two of his men to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies, and to give him the respect of a proper burial. When the two men abandon him instead, taking his only means of protecting himself--including his precious gun and hatchet-- with them, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of uncharted American frontier, negotiating predators both human and not, the threat of starvation, and the agony of his horrific wounds. In Michael Punke's hauntingly spare and gripping prose, "The Revenant" is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

Reviews

'A spellbinding tale of heroism and obsessive retribution' Publishers Weekly 'A superb revenge story ... Punke has added considerably to our understanding of human endurance and of the men who pushed west in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark - a significant feat' Washington Post