BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Gloryland

    (By Shelton Johnson)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 24 MB (24,083 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 626 times
    Last checked 11 Hour ago!
    Author Shelton Johnson
    “Book Descriptions: Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave — but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival as a teenager, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains — and, like other rootless young African-American men of that era, joins up with the U.S. cavalry.

    The trajectory of Elijah’s army career parallels the nation’s imperial adventures in the late 19th century: subduing Native Americans in the West, quelling rebellion in the Philippines. Haunted by the terrors endured by black Americans and by his part in persecuting other people of color, Elijah is sustained only by visions, memories, prayers, and his questing spirit — which ultimately finds a home when his troop is posted to the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903. Here, living with little beyond mountain light, running water, campfires, and stars, he becomes a man who owns himself completely, while knowing he’s left pieces of himself scattered along his life’s path like pebbles on a creek bed.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks

    ★★★★★

    Mark Woods

    Book 1

    Chenneville

    ★★★★★

    Paulette Jiles

    Book 1

    When the World Fell Silent

    ★★★★★

    Donna Jones Alward

    Book 1

    Shanghai

    ★★★★★

    Joseph Kanon

    Book 1

    Honey

    ★★★★★

    Victor Lodato

    Book 1

    Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

    ★★★★★

    Adam Minter

    Book 1

    Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

    ★★★★★

    Heather Anish Anderson

    Book 1

    Big in Sweden

    ★★★★★

    Sally Franson

    Book 1

    Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

    ★★★★★

    Andrea Lankford

    Book 1

    Legends of the Fall

    ★★★★★

    Jim Harrison

    Book 1

    The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

    ★★★★★

    Kevin Fedarko

    Book 1

    The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

    ★★★★★

    Allen Ginsberg

    Book 1

    The Shadowy Horses

    ★★★★★

    Susanna Kearsley

    Book 1

    Hill of Secrets

    ★★★★★

    Galina Vromen

    Book 1

    A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

    ★★★★★

    Kevin Fedarko

    Book 1

    Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Deborah Jackson Taffa

    Book 1

    Kinfolk

    ★★★★★

    Sean Dietrich