JUNIUS AND ALBERT’ S ADVENTURES IN THE CONFEDERACY: A CIVIL WAR ODYSSEY
Book ID/图书代码： 08900014B67442
English Summary/英文概要： Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves and pro-Union bushwhackers. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus moments of antic comedy.
On their long, strange adventure, Junius and Albert encountered an astonishing variety of American characters—Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, Rebel con men and Union spies, a Confederate pirate-turned-playwright, a sadistic hangman nicknamed “the Anti-Christ,” a secret society called the Heroes of America, a Union guerrilla convinced that God protected him from Confederate bullets, and a mysterious teenage girl who rode to their rescue at just the right moment.
Peter Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed K Blows Top, has, in Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy, written a gripping story about the lifesaving power of friendship and a surreal voyage through the bloody battlefields, dark prisons, and cold mountains of the Civil War.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 朱尼厄斯•布朗和阿尔伯特•理查森一直为纽约论坛报报道南北战争，直到当他们试图借助装满干草的船潜行通过维克斯堡时被同盟军抓获。从一个叛军监狱转移到另一个监狱时，他们在奴隶和联盟游击队员的帮助下逃脱了，长途跋涉穿过白雪覆盖的阿巴拉契亚。他们惊人的，长期被遗忘的冒险旅程充满了戏剧，勇气，恐惧和神勇，再加上滑稽可笑的喜剧时刻，是美国历史上最伟大的逃跑故事之一。
在他们长期和奇怪的冒险旅程中，朱尼厄斯和阿尔伯特遇到了各种令人吃惊的美国人物——亚伯拉罕•林肯和尤利塞斯•S•格兰特，反叛骗子和联盟的间谍，一个同盟海盗出身的剧作家，一个绰号“反基督”的嗜血成性的刽子手， 一个被称为美国英雄秘密社团，一个相信上帝保护他免受同盟子弹袭击的联盟游击队员，以及一个在危急时刻降临拯救他们的神秘少女。
彼得•卡尔森，广受好评的《撞击顶端》的作者，在《朱尼厄斯和阿尔伯特的联盟冒险》中讲述了一个关于友谊的力量拯救生命的扣人心弦的故事，一段穿过血腥的战场，黑监狱和内战寒冷的山上的超现实航程。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：2013年由书页评选的最好的书本之一。
“迷人的….很难相信，仍然有令人信服的关于内战的事情未被揭示，但是这两个勇敢记者的冒险旅程是深刻的，吸收了边远地区少见的巨大冲突的社会历史。南北战争中最伟大的冒险之一。”——华尔街日报
“彼得•卡尔森将这些和其他研编织成一个引人注目的，真正令人兴奋的故事。他也在其中发现了幽默，特别是严重的新闻犯罪的故事（例如喝得太多的记者见证的整个战斗场面）。不稳定因素比洋基队压制住南方的威胁平衡的多（在亚特兰大，报纸社论劝诫会被私刑处死），联盟的同情者内心深处的人性，黑与白，在他们漫长而寒冷的退路上给予帮助。大量的纪实叙事读起来像小说；这本书做到了。”——波士顿环球报
“这个吸引人的故事讲述了两个北方战地记者被同盟者在维克斯堡抓获，被囚禁了十九个月后，逃出联合线演示200英里外，但是对于内战来说，事实却是比小说更惊险。对从奴隶和南方白种人公会成员得到的重要帮助的解释，提供了对南方社会的重要见解。”——詹姆斯•M•麦克弗森，《自由的呐喊》的作者
One of the Best Titles of 2013 by Bookpage
Wall Street Journal
“Engaging…. It’s hard to believe that anything compelling about the Civil War remains unexplored, but the picaresque odyssey of these two plucky journalists turns out to be an intimate and absorbing social history of the rarely glimpsed backwoods of the great conflict….One of the great adventures of the Civil War.”
Boston Globe
“Peter Carlson weaves these and other research into a compelling, truly exciting tale. He finds humor in it, too, especially stories of grave journalistic crimes (entire battle scenes made up by reporters too drunk to witness the scene, for instance). The levity is more than balanced by the genuine menace the Yankees faced down South (in Atlanta, newspaper editorials urged they be lynched) and the deep humanity of those Union sympathizers, black and white, who helped them on their long, cold escape route. Plenty of nonfiction narratives claim to read like novels; this one actually does.”
James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
“This absorbing story of two Northern war reporters who were captured by the Confederates at Vicksburg, imprisoned for nineteen months, and escaped two hundred miles to Union lines demonstrates that for the Civil War, truth is indeed more thrilling than fiction. The accounts of the essential help the escapees received from slaves and Southern white Unionists provides key insights on Southern society.”
About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•卡尔森是已被改编成故事片的《撞击顶端》的作者。多年以来，他是一名记者和华盛顿邮报的专栏作家。他也为史密森杂志，美国历史和赫芬顿邮报写作。他住在马里兰州的洛克维尔。Peter Carlson is the author of K Blows Top, which has been optioned into a feature film. For many years, he was a reporter and columnist for the Washington Post. He has also written for Smithsonian magazine, American History, and the Huffington Post. He lives in Rockville, MD.
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