Gustave Aimard
Dans un banquet, quand vient son tour de raconter un fait marquant dans sa vie, un officier choisit de raconter une mésaventure qui lui est arrivée en Espagne : À la fin d'une soirée au cours de laquelle il a rencontré un ancien brigand, il décide, contre l'avis de son hôte, de rentrer chez lui sans attendre la fin de la tempête qui sévit. C'est l'esprit encore enfumé et plein des histoires du bandit, qu'il part sur les routes fréquentées
...Nous retrouvons les personnages des «Pirates des Prairies», épisode qui précède le présent roman. Le père Séraphin, rencontre la mère de Valentin en France et lui propose de l'accompagner pour aller retrouver son fils en Amérique. Pendant ce temps le Blood's Son retrouve la Gazelle blanche et apprend que celle-ci est sa nièce. Ils décident de se lancer à la poursuite du Squatter ensemble. De son coté Valentin Guillois, avec l'aide
...Set against the backdrop of the Mexican-American War, Gustave Aimard's thrilling adventure tale The White Scalper is yet another of the author's novels whose central protagonist is something of a cultural misfit, an outsider who has spurned social niceties in favor of what he views as a higher moral calling. Packed with action that transpires on the battlefield and off, this novel will please fans of classic Western yarns.
Like many of Gustave Aimard's classic action-adventure novels, Stoneheart traces long-simmering conflicts between two groups of people: the indigenous tribes that occupied the land for thousands of years, and the more recent arrivals seeking to exploit natural resources and stake their own claims. Set in the perilous terrain of northern Mexico, this briskly paced tale will catch and hold the reader's interest.
French-born writer Gustave Aimard penned numerous action-adventure novels over the course of his literary career, many of which are set in Latin America and the western territories of the United States. His gripping tale The Bee Hunters begins with a foiled assassination attempt that has far-reaching consequences for the perpetrator and the intended victim.
Like many of Gustave Aimard's action-packed yarns, The Prairie Flower is a study in cultural tension. Young French aristocrat Count Charles Edward de Beaulieu has banished himself from his native Europe, but his self-imposed exile in America is faring poorly, as he feels misunderstood and hopelessly out of place. Soon enough, a crisis breaks the Count out of his doldrums, and he acquits himself admirably when the chips are down.
Following in the tradition of his well-received series of action-adventure tales set in the wilds of western North America, Gustave Aimard offers up The Red Track, a prequel of sorts, which fills readers in on some of the background and context that served as plot points in such novels as The Gold Seekers and The Tiger Slayer. In this exciting volume, an improbable pair of desert travelers meet up and decide to take a dangerous
...Born under harsh circumstances, author Gustave Aimard began his lifelong travels at the tender age of nine, when he first set sail on a fishing rig. Eventually, Aimard found himself in Mexico, where his experiences with indigenous peoples sparked his imagination. The classic western The Pirates of the Prairies is one of over seventy novels and stories that Aimard would pen over the course of his literary career.
The lush South American lowlands known as the Pampas have been the site of a tense tete-a-tete between the indigenous communities and the descendants of European settlers for centuries. Gustave Aimard's Last of the Incas is set against this backdrop, and recounts a period during which the tensions between the two groups boiled over.
Renée est enlevée par Ignace et d'autres révoltés. Chasseur et Ivon les retrouvent mais échouent. Ignace avoue à Delgrès qu'il a enlevé Renée. Chasseur va voir Delgrès et y voit Renée qui demande à Delgrès de rencontrer Richepance. Il accepte si elle y est. Il la libère avec Chasseur. Les révoltés brulent les plantations. Delgrès rencontre Richepance et Renée y assiste. Il demande l'amnistie mais refuse de se rendre. Richepance
...Aimard est le spécialiste français des romans du grand ouest Américain et ce livre est son premier qui se passe dans l'ouest américain. On y trouve les grands thèmes propres au genre : le rejet d'un fils par son père, le châtiment, l'expiation, la rédemption. Mais aussi la fierté des hommes affrontant leur destin, les pirates (des plaines), les indiens (et le bon sauvage), la camaraderie exaltée, les grands sentiments et les petits massacres,
...Voici un des derniers romans de Gustave Aimard, lui-même étant, en 1881, le dernier auteur pratiquant encore le roman de l'Ouest tel que né 60 ans plus tôt. Les connaisseurs s'amuseront (ou se désoleront) de la description pour le moins manichéenne de la nation Apache, peuple politiquement incorrect de ce temps, en opposition aux gentils Comanches.
16) Jim l'Indien
Du pur western dans la tradition des «dime novels» américains. Ce livre est paru sous la double signature de Aimard,Gustave et Jules Berlioz d'Auriac, mais il semble que ce soit Jules Berlioz d'Auriac qui ait écrit ce roman, il est même possible que ce dernier n'ait fait que copier de jeunes auteurs américains...
19) The Frontiersmen
From the 1500s to the 1800s, a vast swath of what is now North America, Central America, and South America was a hub of great wealth and power controlled by Spain. Not surprisingly, this area was a popular target for swindlers, thieves, and the special breed of pirates known as buccaneers. French writer Gustave Aimard expertly dramatizes the longstanding war between the Spanish and the criminals who sought to usurp their holdings in the region
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