Dead Certanties
by Simon Schama
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An experiment in historical narration: two true "tales"--Each involving a violent death, each linked to a great, tragic Boston dynasty, that of General James Wolfe, killed at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the second, the death of George Parkman, eccentric Boston luminary. Both tales are linked by the fate of the dynasty of the Parkmans of Boston and by Schama's sense of the irrecoverable distance between events and their narration, of the death of certainty--Jacket.
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Death and burial, Death, Biographies, Histoire, Aspect social, Mort et sépulture, Mort, Moorden, Biography, History, Boston (mass.), biography, Death, social aspects, Parkman, francis, 1823-1893, Parkman, george, 1790-1849, Historiography, Trials (Homicide), Social aspects, Fallstudiensammlung| Edition | Availability |
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Dead Certanties
October 18, 1994, Random House Value Publishing
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0517131722 9780517131725
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Dead certainties: (unwarranted speculations)
1992, Granta Books in association with Penguin Books
in English
0140140425 9780140140422
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Dead certainties: unwarranted speculations
1992, Vintage Books, Random House of Canada
in English
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
0394222687 9780394222684
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Dead certainties: (unwarranted speculations)
1992, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
0679736131 9780679736134
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Dead certainties: unwarranted speculations
1991, Knopf
in English
- 1st ed.
0679402136 9780679402138
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Dead certainties: (unwarranted speculations)
1991, Granta Books, Penguin
in English
0140142304 9780140142303
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"'Twas the darkness that did the trick, black as tar, that and the silence, though how the men contriv'd to clamber their way up the cliff with their musket and seventy rounds on their backs, I'm sure I don't know even though I saw it with my own eyes and did it myself before very long."
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