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| #739217 in eBooks | 2014-01-09 | 2014-01-09 | File type: PDF||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Historical Perscpective|By Ruth L. Haring|I found this book originally in my school library and was intrigued by a historical work written by Washington Irving. The book proved to be fascinating. It is a retelling of first hand accounts of the attempt by John Jacob Astor to found a fur trading dynasty on the west coast in direct competition with the British and Ru|About the Author|One of the first American writers to gain acclaim in Europe, Washington Irving was also an essayist, a biographer, an historian, and a diplomat. He is best known for having written the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
In 1836, Irving published " Astoria ; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains ;" a somewhat curious example of literary skill. A voluminous commercial correspondence was the dull ore of the earth which he refined and wrought into symmetry and splendor. Irving reduced to a regular narrative the events to which it referred, bringing out the picturesque whenever he found it, and enlivening the whole with touches of his native humor. His nephew, Pierre M. ...
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