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Mar 9, 2010 · Gabrielle Burton's Impatient with Desire is a beautifully written fictional account of the Donner party's epic journey of 1846. It is a journey whose tragic and gruesome finale is familiar to most Americans.
Historians have long known that Tamsen kept a journal, though it was never found. In Impatient with Desire, Burton imagines this lost journal—and paints a picture of a remarkable heroine in an extraordinary situation. Download Impatient with Desire Press Release.
Feb 12, 2014 · Impatient with desire ... Impatient with desire by Gabrielle Burton. Publication date 2010 Publisher Voice/Hyperion ... Full catalog record MARCXML.
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Mar 9, 2010 · Gabrielle Burton’s “Impatient with Desire” details the ill-fated emigration of the Donner party in 1846. The novel unfolds though journal entries and letters written by Tamsen Donner and provides an intimate perspective to one of the most notorious and mythologized chapters in American history.
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Jun 17, 2010 · Impatient with Desire. By Gabrielle Burton. Hardcover, 256 pages. Voice. List price: $22.99. Gabrielle Burton is also the mother of five daughters; she'd been drawn to Tamsen Donner...
Mar 12, 2010 · Now, with “Impatient With Desire,” Burton has taken her obsession all the way: She inhabits Tamsen Donner, crawling inside her skin, then into the dark, fetid hole in the woods with her...
