{"product_id":"9780061877254","title":"The Indifferent Stars Above","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings on a trek that would become a landmark tale of westward expansion. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this gripping work of narrative nonfiction, New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale of survival both spellbinding and richly informative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis epic of survival puts you inside one of history’s most harrowing episodes—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Woman's Perspective:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, a newlywed whose dreams of a better future turn into a nightmare in the Sierra Nevada mountains.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDesperate Winter Journey:\u003c\/b\u003e Witness the unfathomable hardships endured by Sarah and fourteen others as they attempt to cross the mountains on handmade snowshoes in the dead of winter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMeticulously Researched History:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover the unvarnished truth as the author sheds new light on the legendary Donner Party, drawing from deep archival research to tell a spellbinding story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAgainst the Odds:\u003c\/b\u003e A gripping account of family, tragedy, and the brutal realities of pioneer survival on the American frontier when the first heavy snows fall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Daniel James Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132735766677,"sku":"9780061877254","price":18.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/x750_a08d5129-da24-4ffb-99a6-bd5eea3735b6.jpg?v=1776992631","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780061877254","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}