Panther in the Sky
"Thom shows how, in honest, capable hands, fictionalized biography can add verisimilitude to the life and times of this extraordinary America....The dialogue has the ring of reality about it....Thom is able to get into the thoughts and emotions of his characters...."DEE BROWNLOS ANGELES...
show more
"Thom shows how, in honest, capable hands, fictionalized biography can add verisimilitude to the life and times of this extraordinary America....The dialogue has the ring of reality about it....Thom is able to get into the thoughts and emotions of his characters...."DEE BROWNLOS ANGELES TIMESRich, colorful and bursting with excitment, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny--to unite his people in the struggle to save their land and their way of life from the relentless press of the white settlers.
show less
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345366382 (0345366387)
ASIN: 0345366387
Publish date: 1990-02-13
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 704
Edition language: English
Just about all the reviews for this book I've seen on various sites are raves, but I can't say I liked this book much. My reaction to it was similar to my response to two other works of historical fiction I read over the last past months. One was Elizabeth Chadwick's The Greatest Knight about Willia...
Chief Tecumseh is my new hero. What an amazing individual. Many of the details of his life are in dispute and largely apocryphal, but there is no question that he was a brave visionary, extremely intelligent and able to inspire loyalty and devotion from all who knew him (white men included). This ...
Log in with Facebook 
