The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
Jan 2015 · Sold by Picador
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A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier.
Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier.
Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.
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423 reviews
Emily peters
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April 19, 2018
I absolutely loved this book. I rarely read survivor books however this book got me hooked i couldn't it down. The things that Hugh Class goes through absolutely blew my mind just because I never realized how strong human beings can be and trauma that he went through.
Dale Holt
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January 28, 2016
The book seemed to be a re-write of A man in the Wilderness. In this book a man by the name of Bass gets mauled, two men are left to bury him which the dont and they run of leavinv him whilst taking his supplies. In the movie Bass is played by Richard Harris
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Janaca Jankovich
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December 17, 2015
Yes... yes, it did. Do I regret reading it? No, I don't. If you're looking for a literary climax maybe you should look somewhere else. If you want to take a semi historically accurate traipse through the wilderness in the mid 1800's then read this book. I do believe your enjoyment level depends on you imagination. It's likely they'll tweak the ending for the movie which I plan to see regardless of my proverbial balls.
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About the author
Michael Punke is the author of several books including The Revenant, a #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Academy Award–winning film. In his diverse professional career, Punke has served as the US ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, history correspondent for the Montana Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. As a high school and college student, he worked summers as a living history interpreter at Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Wyoming. He lives with his family in Montana and is an avid outdoorsman.
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