{"product_id":"brave-hearted-9780349008288","title":"Brave Hearted","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This book is a triumph'' \u003c\/b\u003eAMANDA FOREMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Absolutely compelling'' \u003c\/b\u003eCHRISTINA LAMB\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A blazing view of the American story'' \u003c\/b\u003eBETTANY HUGHES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Gripping, eye-opening''  \u003c\/b\u003eEMMA DONOGHUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Richly evocative... the survivors were heroines, all of them'' \u003c\/b\u003eYSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Beautifully written''\u003c\/b\u003e CLOVER STROUD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHard-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrave Hearted\u003c\/i\u003e is not just history, it is \u003cb\u003ean incredibly intense page-turning experience\u003c\/b\u003e. To read what these women endured is to be transported into another universe of courage, loss, pain, and occasionally victory. This book is \u003cb\u003ea triumph\u003c\/b\u003e. * Amanda Foreman *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003evivid, fascinating\u003c\/b\u003e rag rug of cultural history that braids together stories usually kept apart . . . Gripping, eye-opening, enlightening -- Emma Donoghue\u003cbr\u003eThis book delivers a blazing 360 degree view of the American story. Each page is \u003cb\u003epacked with gumption and grit and genius\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Bettany Hughes\u003cbr\u003eKatie Hickman has gathered a collection of \u003cb\u003eintriguingly vivid first-hand accounts\u003c\/b\u003e written by some of the women who ventured west. . . Hickman's \u003ci\u003eBrave Hearted\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e, this gripping book explores the stories of the fierce women who helped shape the American West. -- Clover Stroud * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eIn the past 50 years there has been an explosion of scholarly research that has served to dismantle those hoary old myths about the Wild West as a white male space in which women looked worried or sashayed into a saloon bar looking for trouble. In \u003ci\u003eBrave Hearted\u003c\/i\u003e Hickman makes deft and sensitive use of this new material. The result is \u003cb\u003ea glorious patchwork\u003c\/b\u003e . . . does these extraordinary women proud -- Kathryn Hughes * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003erichly evocative\u003c\/b\u003e book, Hickman takes us to the crux of women's experiences in that fast- changing world, 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 *\u003cbr\u003e'Working mainly with published sources, [Hickman] has woven together an extraordinary range of women's first-person voices - we hear from more than fifty of them - into \u003cb\u003ea gripping narrative\u003c\/b\u003e.' * TLS *\u003cbr\u003eA triumphant narrative that brings many overlooked women into the spotlight. * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eAs easy to read as any Western with the added advantage of showing a new version of the Old West, one vital for readers to explore. * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eFull of heartrending accounts of courage and tragedy, this is\u003cb\u003e a vital contribution\u003c\/b\u003e to the history of America's frontier. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eAn unforgettable cast of characters brings \u003cb\u003ean epic tale \u003c\/b\u003eto life. * BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbsolutely compelling\u003c\/b\u003e; telling the stories of women who for so many years have been written out of history, and making us completely rethink our image of the Wild West. -- Christina Lamb * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e[A] wide-ranging survey of the multifaceted roles of women in the 19th-century settlement of the American West... Hickman writes sensitively... A welcome corrective to the long-skewed male-centric history of westward expansion. * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting new history\u003c\/b\u003e.. \u003cb\u003eHickman's writing is exquisite\u003c\/b\u003e; her background as a novelist brings these women into dramatic relief... A meticulous scholar, Hickman draws on diaries and memoirs to immerse us in these women's lives and offer important correctives... \u003ci\u003eBrave Hearted\u003c\/i\u003e is an alternative history of a frontier that was home for some and a fantasy for others long after the Census Bureau decided it was gone * Los Angeles Times *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733636165975,"sku":"9780349008288","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349008288.jpg?v=1720000955","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brave-hearted-9780349008288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}