The Revenant: The bestselling book that inspired the award-winning movie - Softcover

Punke, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008124027 ISBN 13: 9780008124021

Publisher: The Borough Press, 2015

Synopsis

THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE AWARD-WINNING MOVIE Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR Winner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film Winner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Actor - Drama, and Best Director The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Hugh Glass isn't afraid to die. He's done it once already., Rocky Mountains, 1823 The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker.But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two men from the company are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death., But, fearing an imminent attack, they abandon Glass, stripping him of his prized rifle and hatchet. As Glass watches the men flee, he is driven to survive by one all-consuming desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, he sets out on a three-thousand-mile journey across the harsh American frontier, to seek revenge on the men who betrayed him., The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.

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Review:

First published in 2002, this book of THE Revenant has gained popularity again because of the recently released movie by the same name. I am glad that its release gave me the chance to read this great adventure story that I missed the first time around. Attacked by a grizzly, soon after left to die as his fellow trappers flee an attack by natives, forced to crawl and scoot along to escape capture, Hugh Glass' epic story of survival led him through the winter of 1823-1824 across much of the Great Plains. He forced himself on across two-hundred miles of frozen frontier to the nearest fort. There, he recovered enough to continue his pursuit of the two men who had abandoned him and who had stole his knife and his rifle. Michael Punke's The Revenant dramatizes true events. They lend themselves to a vivid storyline. This reissue, after the novel's first release in 2002, anticipates this autumn's film adaptation now being shot in Alberta, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, directed by Alejandro Inarritu. Punke, a Wyoming-raised and Montana-based lawyer when he wrote this, is now an ambassador to the World Trade Organization. Having written two non-fiction histories of the West, his forte lies with narrative. He adapts the historical record of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, as he notes in an afterword, to highlight the plot potential in trapper-tracker Glass' tale. The opening scenes as Glass fends off the bear lend themselves to vivid imagery. Slashed across his back, his leg and arm battered, his throat punctured, Glass' scalp is nearly torn away. "The skin was so loose that it was almost like placing a fallen hat on a bald man." --By Mon2 on 1 April 2016

It is a great revenge story. The book may not seem amazing after you see the movie. So I recommend you to read the book first before watching the movie. --By Revanth on 14 March 2016

About the Author:

Michael Punke serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served on the White House National Security Council staff and on Capitol Hill. He was formerly the history correspondent for Montana Quarterly and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917, and Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. His family home is in Montana.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0008124027
• ISBN 13: 9780008124021
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320