James Alexander Thom is an American author, most celebrated for his contributions to the Western genre. His writing often delves into themes of solitude, survival, and the quest for identity within rugged landscapes. Thom's style is distinguished by meticulous research and a profound sense of place, immersing readers in the heart of the American West. Through his narratives, he seeks to capture the essence of the frontier and the enduring spirit of its inhabitants.
Indiana's distinctive character balances agriculture with industry, tradition with innovation. It is a state of contrasts, in its natural terrain and in its populated regions. ""Indiana II"" portrays these contrasts at their best.
For use in schools and libraries only. Captured by the Shawnee Indians, Mary Ingles escapes and follows the Ohio River a thousand miles back to her home in Virginia.
The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there. Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not. In this book best-selling author James Alexander Thom (Follow the River,From Sea to Shining Sea, Sign-Talker) gives you the tools you need to research and create stories born from the past that will move and inspire modern readers. His comprehensive approach includes lessons on how to: Find and use historical archives and conduct physical field research; Re-construct the world of your novel, including people and voices, physical environments, and cultural context; Achieve verisimilitude in speech, action, setting, and description; Seamlessly weave historical fact with your own compelling plot ideas. With wit and candour, Thom's detailed instruction, illuminating personal experience, and invaluable insights culled from discussions with other trusted historical writers will guide you to craft a novel that is true to what was then, when then was now.
Tecumseh was in de 18e eeuw een van de grootste Indiaanse oorlogsleiders. Hij leidde zijn eigen volk de Shawnee en hun bondgenoten in de strijd om hun woongebied in het Noordoosten van de V.S. De schrijver heeft veel onderzoek gedaan naar de historische toedracht van deze strijd maar nog meer naar de mentaliteit en gedachtenwereld van die Indiaanse volken. Het boek is boeiend geschreven en vertelt op een eenvoudige manier een stuk van de Amerikaanse geschiedenis. Vergelijk: 'Mary, geliefde vrouw van de Creeks' door Dee Brown (a.i. 81-01-052-4) dat over dezelfde periode handelt.