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Informationen zum Autor Katie Hickman is the author of nine previous books, including two bestselling works of non-fiction, Daughters of Britannia - in the Sunday Times bestseller lists for ten months and a twenty-part series for BBC Radio 4 - and Courtesans . She has also written a trilogy of historical novels - The Aviary Gate, The Pindar Diamond and The House at Bishopgate - which between them have been translated into twenty languages. Her other books include two highly acclaimed travel books. Travels with a Mexican Circus (originally published as A Trip to the Light Fantastic ) was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and was one of the Independent 's Books of the Year. Her history of British women in pre-Raj India, She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen , was published in 2019. Born into a diplomatic family, Katie Hickman had a peripatetic childhood, growing up in Spain, Ireland, Singapore and South America. She lives in London on a converted barge on the River Thames. Klappentext Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers travelling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers - all had to be brave-hearted women. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends and the myths, the laws and the treaties, Katie Hickman tells the epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there. 'Not just history... an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transported into another universe of courage, loss, pain and occasionally victory' Amanda Foreman 'Puts the rough texture of personal experience back into the big narrative of how the west was won. Along the way, she shows us what was lost' Lucy Lethbridge, Literary Review 'Deft and sensitive... a glorious patchwork... does these extraordinary women proud' Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times 'Richly evocative... where opportunities for women were opening up in an often lawless atmosphere of greed, gambling, drinking and whoring. It was a rough ride, and the survivors were heroines, all of them' Daily Mail Vorwort The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there Zusammenfassung The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
