Heyday a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792748380 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0792748387 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : BBC Audiobooks America, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. "Sound Library." Duration: 26:54:15. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Charles Leggett. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 386731 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Fiction California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. Adventure fiction. Historical fiction. Love stories. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
As the world is being transformed by astonishing new technologies and ideas, in one single, monumental month of 1848 gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe--and an eager young English gentleman named Benjamin Knowles plunges into love with the strong-minded New York actress and part-time prostitute Polly Lucking. He also meets her brother Duff, a dangerously damaged veteran of the Mexican War, and befriends the unforgettable Timothy Skaggs--journalist, daguerrotypist, mischief maker, stargazer. As they set out on a wild, extraordinary transcontinental race west, lured by the prospect of easy wealth and new beginnings, they are unaware that a stranger bent on revenge shadows their every move.