Skidoo
Summary
In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperadoes and cunning Indians, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, discovering bizarre stories that are a match for any Western.
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Skidoo by Alex Capus
In the company of bank robbers and grave diggers, desperados and cunning Indians, brewers and failing inventors, Alex Capus visits the Wild West's ghost towns, where he descends into a disused silver mine and looks for traces left by the robbers who held-up stage coaches in Death Valley. Capus discovers stories that are a match for any Western: In Bodie the gravediggers used dynamite rather than shovels to blow holes in the ground; in the town of Skidoo, Hootch Simpson, a brawling bartender, was first hung by the mob, then by the law, before being beheaded during his autopsy; in Flagstaff, Capus finds that the legendary Route 66 was, for a time at least, a trail for Edward Fitzgerald Beale's 'Camel Corps'.
Alex Capus is a Swiss-French novelist who writes in German. His best-selling novel Leon and Louise was longlisted for the German Book Prize in 2011. He is also the author of the novels A Matter of Time (2009) and Almost Like Spring, as well as the travelogue Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson and Treasure Island.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781907973956 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907973958 |
| Title | Skidoo |
| Author | Alex Capus |
| Series | Armchair Traveller |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus |
| Year published | 2014-03-20 |
| Number of pages | 84 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |
