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Apr 12, 2023baldand rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This is the second book in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Western trilogy, preceded by “The Englishman’s Boy” and followed by “A Good Man”. This is not a trilogy in the sense of a sequential set of novels about the same characters, but they all deal…
Apr 28, 2022ownedbydoxies rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Just a little too vile for me. I didn't get further than about 40 pages in and already I disliked the characters so strongly I couldn't make myself continue.
May 15, 2021
A rating is difficult on this. The print is very tiny, single, tight spacing. The wording and getting to any point became too difficult...I gave up. Marked completed, did not.
Nov 24, 2018dlh1 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I couldn't force myself to continue reading past page 23, before I skipped ahead to the end to see what happened. I'm glad I didn't waste my time on trying to figure out the convoluted story lines and how they tied together.
Apr 08, 2018Lotushead rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I will only tell you that this book is fantastic. Just read it!
Aug 27, 2015wyenotgo rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I didn't really begin to appreciate this book until I was nearly 300 pages into it; fortunately, I stuck with it and was rewarded with what in the end turned out to be a great story. My difficulty in the beginning was Vanderhaeghe's…
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Jun 29, 2015brianreynolds rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe bites off a significant chunk of Canadian history: the intrusion of American whisky traders north of the 49th parallel in the years immediately following the U.S. Civil War and Canadian Confederation.…
Dec 30, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A sweeping tale of wild-west adventure, that stretches from Victorian London to the rough trading posts of the Canadian prairies and the Indian villages of Montana. Addington Gaunt leaves London in search of his brother, who has gone…
Jul 22, 2014smithev rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Most romantic story I ever read, despite some upsetting graphic content due to the harshness of life at the time and place the book is set.
Jun 17, 2013WVMLBookClubTitles rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Addington Gaunt leaves London in search of his brother who has gone missing somewhere in the wilds of the American West. This sweeping tale of wild-west adventure stretches from the colleges of Oxford and the pleasure houses of London to…
Jan 18, 2012zipread rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe. Three brothers, one lost in the west, two searching for him. A young girl killed. Sundry other scoundrels fitted into the plot neatly. The chief protagonist is a nineteenth-century gentleman (read…
Nov 29, 2011nipper rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In the second half of the nineteenth century, two Englishmen find themselves on a journey across the unknown landscape of the American and Canadian West in an attempt to trace their brother's past. wonderful continuing cowboy saga
Nov 04, 2011tynangroves rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book has almost everything: amazing characters (complete with individual voices), incredible depth of story, and to top it off the story is historical fiction. I am biased in that I love Guy Vanderhaege and I find objectivity…
Feb 27, 2010Darrelln rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Another Great Book by Vanderhaeghe
Nov 29, 2009ilanaaq rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This was a fantastically written book – he has a wide vocabulary and uses just the right word for everything. He’s not melodramatic, and the story moves emotionally without you ever realizing it. He also manages to make every character…
Nov 21, 2008Dub rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Couldn't put this book down. I am a sucker for a book that takes me where the writer is describing. It is historical fiction of the first order. There are sections that are so well written that you might forget that he's talking about…