New Releases by Michael Punke

Nel 1866, gli Stati Uniti si sono appena ripresi dalle ferite della Guerra civile. Non c''è tempo però per la pace: una nuova guerra è scoppiata alla frontiera occidentale. È lo scontro tra una nazione giovane e ambiziosa, intenta a realizzare quello che percepisce come il suo «destino manifesto» e le tribú native che in quelle terre vivono da millenni. Ma è anche il momento drammatico in cui si svela la sostanza di cui sono fatti gli uomini: di viltà o coraggio, di spietatezza o speranza. «Come in Revenant, qui Punke riprende un''altra grande leggenda e ne ripropone la versione corretta: una serie di personaggi indimenticabili per il racconto della battaglia di Fetterman, una delle vittorie piú importanti dei nativi sull''esercito americano. Un romanzo travolgente». Philipp Meyer, autore di Ruggine americana e Il figlio Il colonnello Henry Carrington arriva nella valle del Powder, lungo la pista del Montana, per guidare l''esercito: devono proteggere una nuova strada per i cercatori d''oro e i coloni. Per farlo, Carrington decide di costruire un forte, Fort Phil Kearny, in pieno territorio lakota. Ma Nuvola Rossa, uno dei capi lakota piú rispettati, e il giovane ma carismatico guerriero Cavallo Pazzo comprendono immediatamente le implicazioni di questa invasione. Per i Lakota la posta in gioco è la sopravvivenza. Mentre l''autunno sanguina verso l''inverno, Cavallo Pazzo guida un piccolo gruppo di guerrieri che affronta i soldati del colonnello Carrington con attacchi quasi costanti. Nuvola Rossa, nel frattempo, cerca di stringere le alleanze tribali che sa saranno necessarie per sconfiggere i soldati. Il colonnello Carrington, intento a costruire il suo forte, cerca di tenere insieme un esercito americano lacerato e in subbuglio. Il violento e razzista tenente George Washington Grummond vuole affrontare a viso aperto un nemico che considera inferiore. E le truppe sono divise dagli strascichi della Guerra civile e dalla tentazione di disertare per cercare l''oro nei vicini giacimenti. Le scaramucce proseguono finché un episodio farà precipitare la situazione in uno degli scontri piú drammatici, epici e avvincenti della storia del West. Michael Punke, dopo Revenant, scrive un''altra storia di violenza e sopravvivenza in territori estremi: ma questa volta sono uomini che si scontrano e si misurano con la brutalità della Storia. Basato su un episodio storico fedelmente ricostruito, Il crinale è una riflessione attualissima sull''eterna lotta tra conquista e giustizia, guerra e umanità.

In December 1866, tensions were rising in Wyoming, between the Native American tribes who had lived on the land for generations and the settlers who would destroy their home. Crazy Horse and his fellow Lakota hunters had been watching for months as Colonel Carrington and his army set up camp on one of the most crucial swaths of hunting ground in hundreds of miles, and began to build forts. More disconcertingly, the settlers had brought women and children, which meant they planned to stay. As the Lakota and neighboring tribes set forth with repeated attacks to discourage the settlers, Captain William J. Fetterman, anxious and arrogant, claimed that he could take offense and rid the area of Native American people with only a small army of 80 men. And he would, unless Crazy Horse could find a way to lure the army to their doom.

The dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant Michael Punke''s The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape. Over the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down. The buffalo in this world was a commodity, hounded by legions of swashbucklers and unemployed veterans seeking to make their fortunes. Supporting these hide hunters, even buying their ammunition, was the U.S. Army, which considered the eradication of the buffalo essential to victory in its ongoing war on Native Americans. Into that maelstrom rode young George Bird Grinnell. A scientist and a journalist, a hunter and a conservationist, Grinnell would lead the battle to save the buffalo from extinction. Fighting in the pages of magazines, in Washington''s halls of power, and in the frozen valleys of Yellowstone, Grinnell and his allies sought to preserve an icon from the grinding appetite of Robber Baron America. Grinnell shared his adventures with some of the greatest and most infamous characters of the American West—from John James Audubon and Buffalo Bill to George Armstrong Custer and Theodore Roosevelt (Grinnell''s friend and ally). A strikingly contemporary story, the saga of Grinnell and the buffalo was the first national battle over the environment. Last Stand is the story of the death of the old West and the birth of the new as well as an examination of how the West was really won—through the birth of the conservation movement. It is also the definitive history of the American buffalo, written by a master storyteller of the West.

Er ist mit der Prärie und Kultur der Indianer verbunden wie kaum ein anderes Tier: der Bison. Doch im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert ist von den einst 30 Millionen Exemplaren nur noch ein Dutzend übrig. Denn das Land im Westen gilt als Wunderkammer, reich an Bodenschätzen und kostbaren Tieren, die von weißen Abenteurern und Jägern auf der Suche nach ihrem Stück vom Glück rücksichtslos ausgebeutet wird. Als schließlich der Naturwissenschaftler und Journalist George Bird Grinnell auf einer Zugreise mit einer Büffelherde kollidiert, steht für ihn fest, dass er die Ausrottung der stolzen Riesen verhindern muss ... Ein leidenschaftlicher Kampf beginnt, der auch erstmals ins öffentliche Bewusstsein rückt, wie schutzbedürftig Amerikas einzigartige Landschaft ist. Eine packende Geschichte, die aktueller ist denn je und mitten hineinführt in den Wilden Westen.

"La novela que inspirao La pelicula"--Cover.

A story of survival on the American frontier chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers, but survives and treks through the wilderness to seek justice.

Em 1823, os caçadores da Companhia de Peles Montanhas Rochosas desbravavam as terras inexploradas dos Estados Unidos, enfrentando diariamente o clima implacável, as feras selvagens e a ameaça constante de confronto com os índios, que defendiam suas terras da invasão dos homens brancos. Em uma das missões da companhia, Hugh Glass, um dos melhores e mais experientes caçadores do grupo, fica frente a frente com um urso-cinzento, é atacado e termina gravemente ferido, claramente sem chances de sobreviver. Os homens que deveriam esperar sua morte e lhe oferecer um funeral apropriado o abandonam, levando consigo as armas e os suprimentos. Entre delírios, Glass os observa fugindo e é tomado por um único desejo: vingança. Uma determinação cega que o torna capaz de atravessar quase cinco mil quilômetros de terras intocadas e selvagens, fugindo de predadores, sobrevivendo à fome e à agonia dos ferimentos mais terríveis, a fim de concluir seu objetivo. Inspirado em fatos reais e escrito em uma prosa arrebatadora, O regresso é uma notável história de obsessão, um romance sobre um homem cuja vida foi ao mesmo tempo salva e condenada pela sede de vingança. “Uma obra soberba sobre vingança.” The Washington Post

Michael Punke De spookverschijning Het boek dat de inspiratiebron is van de film The Revenant Lees het boek dat de inspiratiebron is van de internationale bioscoopfilm The Revenant Het is 1823. Langs de rivier de Missouri trekt de 36-jarige avonturier Hugh Glass met een groep pelsjagers een onbekend en zeer gevaarlijk gebied in. Glass ondervindt dit gevaar aan den lijve wanneer hij op brute wijze wordt aangevallen door een grizzlybeer. Dagenlang balanceert hij op het randje van de dood. Zijn medereizigers houden het voor gezien: ze stelen zijn wapens en laten Glass alleen in de wildernis achter. De woede om deze laffe daad geeft de stervende man nieuwe kracht en hij zweert wraak. In de maanden die volgen onderneemt Glass - alleen en ongewapend - een onvoorstelbare tocht van bijna 5000 kilometer door de onherbergzame Amerikaanse wildernis, voortgedreven door de drang naar vergelding. De spookverschijning is een avonturenthriller over verraad en wraak, gebaseerd op een waargebeurde geschiedenis. Michael Punke is de Amerikaanse ambassadeur en permanent vertegenwoordiger bij de Wereldhandelsorganisatie in Genève. Hij groeide op in Wyoming, vlak bij de route die Hugh Glass aflegde. Nu verfilmd als The Revenant door de Oscar-genomineerde regisseur Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Biutiful en 21 Grams), met in de hoofdrollen Leonardo DiCaprio en Tom Hardy.

A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.

A story of survival on the American frontier chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers, but survives and treks through the wilderness to seek justice.

La patience est mère de toutes les vertus... 1823, Missouri. Tandis qu''une première expédition a été attaquée et annihilée par une tribu indienne, la Rocky Mountain Fur Company force sa chance et engage une poignée d''hommes dans une nouvelle tentative pour rallier Fort Union par un trajet inédit et périlleux. Parmi l''équipée, le trappeur Hugh Grass est attaqué par un grizzli quelques jours après le départ. Défiguré, la gorge et l''abdomen dévastés par les coups de pattes de l''animal, il est laissé en arrière avec deux hommes, chargés de le veiller jusqu''à sa mort. Mais Grass s''accroche à la vie. Et chaque heure qui passe rend le trajet pour rallier Fort Union plus dangereux à Fitzgerald et au jeune Jim Bridger, tous deux portés volontaires pour rester avec Grass. Convaincu par le premier d''abandonner leur compagnon agonisant à son funeste sort, Bridger disparait à son tour dans les bois. C''est la dernière image que le trappeur gardera de ses anciens partenaires. Quelques heures plus tard, contre toute attente, il reprend connaissance. Il est seul, en territoire indien, sans arme, sans nourriture. Incapable de se déplacer, souffrant le martyr en raison de ses blessures infectées, délirant, déshydraté, il s''accroche à la vie comme un damné. Son unique motivation : la vengeance. Peu à peu, mû par la colère et aguerri par l''expérience d''une vie hors norme, il reprend des forces. Commence alors le récit hors du commun d''un homme prêt à tous les sacrifices pour retrouver ceux qui l''ont abandonné dans l''Ouest, plus sauvage que jamais.

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company''s Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.

In 1823 maakt een pelsdierenjager jacht op de twee mannen die hem zwaargewond hebben achtergelaten aan de oever van de Missouri met medenemen van al zijn bezittingen en wapens.