Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
by:
Simon Schama (author)
The author of the bestselling Citizens reconstructs--and at times reinvents--the death of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the 1849 murder of the Boston brahmin George Parkman, whose nephew would become Wolfe's biographer. What Schama achieves is "a mind-teasing...
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The author of the bestselling Citizens reconstructs--and at times reinvents--the death of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the 1849 murder of the Boston brahmin George Parkman, whose nephew would become Wolfe's biographer. What Schama achieves is "a mind-teasing delight."--The New York Times Book Review. Photographs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679736134 (0679736131)
Publish date: June 2nd 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Simon Schama, author of Citizens (a history of the French revolution) and Embarrassment of Riches (a cultural history of the Dutch), has authored a strange little book entitled Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations . I say strange, because while I've enjoyed it, I can't figure it out. Basicall...
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