Michael Punke

A story of survival on the American frontier chronicles the exploits of fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow trappers, but survives and treks through the wilderness to seek justice.

A Novel of Revenge

The Revenant

Michael Punke, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant—the basis for the Academy Award–winning film starring Leonardo DiCaprio—returns to the nineteenth-century western frontier with a story of the plains wars. In 1866, the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier—a clash of cultures between a young, ambitious nation intent on fulfilling what it perceives as its destiny and the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Montana’s Powder River Valley to lead the U.S. Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds, the home of the Lakota. Red Cloud, one of the Lakota’s most respected chiefs, and Crazy Horse, a young but visionary warrior, understand full well the implications of this invasion. For the Lakota, the stakes are their home, their culture, their lives. As fall bleeds into winter, Crazy Horse leads a small war party that confronts Colonel Carrington’s soldiers with near constant attacks. Red Cloud, meanwhile, seeks to build the tribal alliances that he knows will be necessary to defeat the soldiers. Colonel Carrington, intent on building his fort, seeks to hold together a U.S. Army beset with internal discord. Carrington’s officers, experienced veterans of the Civil War, are skeptical of their commander’s strategy, none more so than Lieutenant George Washington Grummond, who longs to fight a foe he dismisses as inferior in all ways. And the rank-and-file soldiers are still divided by the residue of civil war, and tempted to desertion by the nearby gold fields. Throughout this fascinating saga—based on real people and events--Punke brings the same immersive, vivid storytelling and historical insight that made his breakthrough debut so memorable. As Ridgeline builds to its epic conclusion, it grapples with essential questions of conquest and justice that still echo today, all without ever losing sight of the living, breathing human beings who make our history so rich.

A Novel

Ridgeline

George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

Last Stand

The true story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story -- striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.

The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

Fire and Brimstone

Em 1823, os caçadores da Companhia de Peles Montanhas Rochosas desbravavam as terras inexploradas dos Estados Unidos, enfrentando diariamente o clima implacável, as feras selvagens e a ameaça constante de confronto com os índios, que defendiam suas terras da invasão dos homens brancos. Em uma das missões da companhia, Hugh Glass, um dos melhores e mais experientes caçadores do grupo, fica frente a frente com um urso-cinzento, é atacado e termina gravemente ferido, claramente sem chances de sobreviver. Os homens que deveriam esperar sua morte e lhe oferecer um funeral apropriado o abandonam, levando consigo as armas e os suprimentos. Entre delírios, Glass os observa fugindo e é tomado por um único desejo: vingança. Uma determinação cega que o torna capaz de atravessar quase cinco mil quilômetros de terras intocadas e selvagens, fugindo de predadores, sobrevivendo à fome e à agonia dos ferimentos mais terríveis, a fim de concluir seu objetivo. Inspirado em fatos reais e escrito em uma prosa arrebatadora, O regresso é uma notável história de obsessão, um romance sobre um homem cuja vida foi ao mesmo tempo salva e condenada pela sede de vingança.

O regresso

Roman zum Film

The Revenant - Der Rückkehrer

Traces the efforts of a late-nineteenth-century environmentalist who sought to protect buffalo that were being systematically slaughtered by out-of-work Civil War veterans promoting "manifest destiny" settlements in the West, in an account that cites Grinnell's role in launching the modern conservation movement.

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.

From the #1 international bestselling author of THE REVENANT – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the fascinating story of America’s first battle over the environment.

Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

"The book that inspired the movie"--Front cover.

1823. Sungai Grand-perbatasan antara Dakota Utara dan Selatan. Hugh Glass, penjelajah berpengalaman dan ahli melacak jejak, tak menyangka masih bisa hidup. Ketika berhadapan dengan beruang grizzly, dia terluka sangat parah. Semua orang di rombongannya menyangka hidup Glass tak akan bertahan lama. Dua orang rekan seperjalanannya diperintahkan merawat dan menunggui Glass yang sedang sekrang. Alih-alih membantu, mereka justru kabur dengan membawa semua peralatan bertahan hidup milik Glass. Pengkhiantaan itu membuat Glass bersikeras bertahan hidup demi satu tujuan: membalas dendam. Dengan tekad kuat, Glass merangkak sejauh ratusan mil di perbatasan dataran Amerika, mengejar incarannya. Inilah kisah mendebarkan mengenai pengkhianatan, keserakahan, juga perjuangan antara hidup dan mati-perjalanan luar biasa dari seorang penjelajah di dataran Amerika pada abad ke-19. [Mizan, Noura Books, Best Seller, Novel, Terjemahan, Oscar, Film, Indonesia]

The dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant Michael Punke's The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape. Over the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down. The buffalo in this world was a commodity, hounded by legions of swashbucklers and unemployed veterans seeking to make their fortunes. Supporting these hide hunters, even buying their ammunition, was the U.S. Army, which considered the eradication of the buffalo essential to victory in its ongoing war on Native Americans. Into that maelstrom rode young George Bird Grinnell. A scientist and a journalist, a hunter and a conservationist, Grinnell would lead the battle to save the buffalo from extinction. Fighting in the pages of magazines, in Washington's halls of power, and in the frozen valleys of Yellowstone, Grinnell and his allies sought to preserve an icon from the grinding appetite of Robber Baron America. Grinnell shared his adventures with some of the greatest and most infamous characters of the American West—from John James Audubon and Buffalo Bill to George Armstrong Custer and Theodore Roosevelt (Grinnell's friend and ally). A strikingly contemporary story, the saga of Grinnell and the buffalo was the first national battle over the environment. Last Stand is the story of the death of the old West and the birth of the new as well as an examination of how the West was really won—through the birth of the conservation movement. It is also the definitive history of the American buffalo, written by a master storyteller of the West.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history.

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

Cartea care a inspirat filmul The Revenant: legenda lui Hugh Glass „O teribilă poveste despre trădare.“ – The Washington Post Book World Suntem în anul 1823 și vânătorii de blănuri ai Companiei Rocky Mountain Fur duc o viață brutală de frontieră. Hugh Glass e unul din cei mai buni oameni ai Companiei, un neînfricat pionier al frontierei, specialist în găsirea urmelor. Dar o misiune de cercetare îl aduce față în față cu un urs grizzly, care îl mutilează groaznic, iar ceilalți nu mai speră ca el să supraviețuiască. Doi oameni ai Companiei sunt desemnați să aibă grijă de Glass până moare. Însă după ce aceștia îl jefuiesc și-l abandonează, pe Glass îl ține în viață o singură dorință: răzbunarea. Cu un curaj și o hotărâre ieșite din comun, omul munților parcurge, mai întâi târâș, sute de kilometri din frontiera americană neexplorată. Bazat pe fapte reale, Răzbunătorul. Legenda lui Hugh Glass e o poveste remarcabilă despre obsesie, voință umană împinsă până la limite și despre cât de departe poate duce setea de răzbunare. „Răzbunătorul. Legenda lui Hugh Glass are toate elementele unui roman clasic de aventuri, oferind forță și vitalitate poveștii dramatice a vânătorului Hugh Glass, pe care nici măcar o ursoaică grizzly nu a reușit să-l omoare.“ – Craig Johnson, autorul seriei Walt Longmire „Una dintre cele mai impresionante legende despre Vestul Sălbatic.“ – The Salt Like Tribune „Mormăitul crescu în intensitate, în timp ce ursoaica intra în luminiș. Își ținea ochii negri ațintiți asupra lui Glass și capul plecat la pământ, în timp ce adulmeca mirosul străin, un miros care se amesteca acum cu cel al puilor ei. Ursoaica îl înfruntă direct, cu trupul răsucit și încordat ca un arc puternic de trăsură. Glass se minună de mușchii incredibili ai animalului. Picioarele groase din față se continuau cu umeri masivi, iar deasupra de tot era cocoașa argintie care făcea din ea un grizzly.“ Citiți cartea care a inspirat celebrul film The Revenant: Legenda lui Hugh Glass. Povestea uluitoare a personajului real Hugh Glass, vânător de blănuri și pionier al Frontierei Americane.

Răzbunătorul. Legenda lui Hugh Glass

Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR Winner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film Winner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor – Drama, and Best Director

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