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The Land Breakers is a 1964 American historical novel by John Ehle. It is the first book in Ehle's seven-volume Appalachian cycle. [1] Plot. The Land Breakers chronicles the settling of an unnamed, uninhabited, remote Appalachian valley by several pioneering families.
18 de mar. de 2022 · A novel about the settlement of southern Appalachia in the late 18th century, following the lives of various characters who face hardships and opportunities in the wilderness. The book was first published in 1964 and is available online from Internet Archive.
In 1964, Harper & Row published The Land Breakers, perhaps his most well-known book. The book is a fictional account set in the late 18th century that traces the story of the first White pioneers to settle in the Appalachian wilderness of the mountains of Western North Carolina.
John Ehle. 4.30. 1,593 ratings214 reviews. A motley band of characters makes its way into a high mountain valley in northwestern North Carolina to tame the land or to be consumed by it. Five years of struggle to create a community ensue, in which part of the struggle is just to survive.
Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community.
25 de nov. de 2014 · Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the...
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