Israel Potter - Herman Melville - Libros -  - 9798682767274 - 17 de septiembre de 2020
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Israel Potter

Book Excerpt: ...ur before dawn, when, upon awaking, he heard the soft, prophetic sighing of the pine, stirred by the first breath of the morning. Like the leaflets of that evergreen, all the fibres of his heart trembled within him; tears fell from his eyes. But he thought of the tyranny of his father, and what seemed to him the faithlessness of his love; and shouldering his bundle, arose, and marched on. His intention was to reach the new countries to the northward and westward, lying between the Dutch settlements on the Hudson, and the Yankee settlements on the Housatonic. This was mainly to elude all search. For the same reason, for the first ten or twelve miles, shunning the public roads, he travelled through the woods; for he knew that he would soon be missed and pursued. He reached his destination in safety; hired out to a farmer for a month through the harvest; then crossed from the Hudson to the Connecticut. Meeting here with an adventurer to the unknown regions lying about the head waters of the latter river, h...

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Publicado 17 de septiembre de 2020
ISBN13 9798682767274
Páginas 184
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 10 mm   ·   254 g
Lengua Inglés  

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