Synopsis Ti Kinneson, growing up in Vermont, idolizes his Uncle True and his Western exploits, and when True heads for the frontier again in an attempt to reach the Pacific Ocean, Ti tags along--and, a few years ahead of Lewis and Clark, they actually get there. En route, Ti discovers his skill as an artist.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2004-05-19 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 352 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Publisher's Note Determined to beat Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in a race to the Pacific Ocean, Vermont schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer True Teague Kinneson and his nephew Ticonderoga head west, eincountering Daniel Boone and his lusty spinster daughter, an army of Spaniards and Anasazi, Sacajawea's Shoshone relatives, and other unusual adventures along the way. Reprint.
Industry Reviews "[A]n erudite and absorbing tweak of the Great Exploration. Skirting the dangerous whirlpools of whimsy and preciousness, novelist and memoirist Mosher...spins a light-as-air western concoction." Kirkus Reviews (04/01/2003)
"In six previous works of fiction, set primarily in a small pocket of Vermont's northern borderlands, Mosher has depicted the workaday realities of more recent times. But with The True Account he sallies into an imagined past, blithely borrowing elements from Tristram Shandy, Little Big Man, the Flashman chronicles and especially Don Quixote....[T]his cockeyed joyride through history is something of a triumph in its own right." Washington Post Book World - Matt Schudel (06/08/2003)
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